gladness
/ˈɡlædnəs/
"gladness" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gladness” is uncommon English (frequency #54,202 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,202
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being glad; joy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gladness · gladness · English
gladness · rank #54,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,202
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH ghostwriter
Nearest frequency peer: ghostwriter (-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 “gladness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- geochemistry
geochemistry
45,803 corpus weight
- geometrical…
geometrically
45,802 corpus weight
- ghostwriter
ghostwriter
45,800 corpus weight
- gladness
gladness
45,799 corpus weight
- glob
glob
45,796 corpus weight
- Gormley
Gormley
45,795 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gladness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gladness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡlædnəs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gladness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gladness is uncommon English at frequency #54,202 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡlædnəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being glad; joy.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gladness, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From glad + -ness. The correct English form is gladness, spelled G-L-A-D-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state of being glad; joy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gladness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
But as time, as time will, drew on, and Watt's period of service on the ground floor approached its term, then this wish and this fear, and so this sorrow and this gladness, like so many other wishes and fears, so many other sorrows and gladnesses, grew duller and duller and gradually ceased to be felt, at all.
Etymology
From glad + -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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