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fleetness

fleet·ness/ˈfliːt.nəs/noun

fleetness is a noun meaning “The quality of being fleet or swift; rapidity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-E-E-T-N-E-S-S and has 2 syllables (fleet·ness), and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fleetness is fleetnesses.

What does fleetness mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being fleet or swift; rapidity.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fleetness?

  • /ˈfliːt.nəs/

Fleetness has 2 syllables, split fleet·ness in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fleetness

  • fleetnesses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fleetness?

Fleetness appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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 fleetness come from?

From fleet + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).