foolhardiness
/ˈfulˌhɑɹ.di.nəs/noun
foolhardiness is a noun meaning “The quality of being foolhardy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-O-L-H-A-R-D-I-N-E-S-S and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foolhardiness is foolhardinesses.
What does foolhardiness mean?
noun
- 1
The quality of being foolhardy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce foolhardiness?
- US /ˈfulˌhɑɹ.di.nəs/
Foolhardiness has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Qwertygiy-foolhardiness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of foolhardiness
- foolhardinesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foolhardiness?
Foolhardiness appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).
Foolhardiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense quality of being foolhardy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Tollkühnheit |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does foolhardiness come from?
From Middle English foolhardynesse; equivalent to foolhardy + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).