feverishness
/ˈfivəɹəʃnəs/
"feverishness" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“feverishness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of being feverish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-feverishness · feverishness · English
feverishness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feverishness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfivəɹəʃnəs/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “feverishness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
feverishness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfivəɹəʃnəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality of being feverish.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for feverishness in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From feverish + -ness. The correct English form is feverishness, spelled F-E-V-E-R-I-S-H-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality of being feverish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how feverishness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
One of the party was suffering severely from ophthalmia - he had been seized with it some days before; the pain was so great that he could get no sleep, and when my father met him he was delirious from want of rest and feverishness.
Etymology
From feverish + -ness.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.