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goofiness

noun

goofiness is spelled G-O-O-F-I-N-E-S-S: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, goofiness means “The state of being goofy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of goofiness is goofinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in goofiness?

Letters9: G-O-O-F-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 12 million words; the 102,771st 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 goofiness?

Goofiness appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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 goofiness

  • goofinesses plural

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

What does goofiness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being goofy.

  2. 2

    Goofy behaviour.

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

Goofiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishbobería, bobaliconería (the state of being goofy), babada, bobedad (disused) (goofy behavior)

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 goofiness come from?

From goofy + -ness.

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

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