fecklessness
noun
fecklessness is a noun meaning “The state of being feckless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-C-K-L-E-S-S-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fecklessness is fecklessnesses.
What does fecklessness mean?
noun
- 1
The state of being feckless.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fecklessness?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-fecklessness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fecklessness
- fecklessnesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fecklessness?
Fecklessness appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fecklessness come from?
From feckless + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).