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godlessness

noun

godlessness is spelled G-O-D-L-E-S-S-N-E-S-S: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, godlessness means “The state of being godless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of godlessness is godlessnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in godlessness?

Letters11: G-O-D-L-E-S-S-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 20 million words; the 134,976th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 godlessness?

Godlessness appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).

Forms of godlessness

  • godlessnesses plural

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

What does godlessness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being godless.

  2. 2

    derogatoryslangMalevolence, wickedness, worldliness.

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

Godlessness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense state of being godless:

LanguageWords
GermanGottlosigkeit

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 godlessness come from?

From godless + -ness.

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

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