fineness
"fineness" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fineness” is uncommon English (frequency #66,664 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,664
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality or degree of being fine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fineness · fineness · English
fineness · rank #66,664 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,664
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH filamentous
Nearest frequency peer: filamentous (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “fineness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fiefdom
fiefdom
33,341 corpus weight
- fightback
fightback
33,340 corpus weight
- filamentous
filamentous
33,338 corpus weight
- fineness
fineness
33,337 corpus weight
- finitely
finitely
33,336 corpus weight
- fisticuffs
fisticuffs
33,335 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fineness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fineness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fineness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fineness is uncommon English at frequency #66,664 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
fineness doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From fine + -ness. The correct English form is fineness, spelled F-I-N-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality or degree of being fine.
- 2The ratio, in a precious metal, of the primary metal to any additives or impurities.
- 3The ratio of length to width of a ship, aircraft or rocket
Etymology
From fine + -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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).