forgiveness

for·give·ness/fɚˈɡɪvnəs/noun

forgiveness is spelled F-O-R-G-I-V-E-N-E-S-S: 11 letters and 3 syllables (for·give·ness). It appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, forgiveness means “The action of forgiving” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of forgiveness is forgivenesses.

How many letters and syllables are in forgiveness?

Letters	11: F-O-R-G-I-V-E-N-E-S-S
Syllables	3: for·give·ness
In writing	7.4 times per million words; the 8,669th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is forgiveness?

Forgiveness appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce forgiveness?

UK /fəˈɡɪvnəs/
US /fɚˈɡɪvnəs/

Forgiveness has 3 syllables, split for·give·ness in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-forgiveness.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of forgiveness

forgivenesses plural

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

What does forgiveness mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
The action of forgiving.
He begged for forgiveness after being caught stealing from the shop.
2
A readiness to forgive.