grossness
/ˈɡɹəʊsnəs/
"grossness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grossness” is uncommon English (frequency #94,912 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,912
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-grossness · grossness · English
grossness · rank #94,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,912
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH greyscale
Nearest frequency peer: greyscale (-2 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 “grossness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- greenness
greenness
5,093 corpus weight
- Grewal
Grewal
5,092 corpus weight
- greyscale
greyscale
5,091 corpus weight
- grossness
grossness
5,089 corpus weight
- guesstimate
guesstimate
5,086 corpus weight
- guiltless
guiltless
5,083 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “grossness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grossness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɹəʊsnəs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grossness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grossness is uncommon English at frequency #94,912 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡɹəʊsnəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for grossness, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From gross + -ness. The correct English form is grossness, spelled G-R-O-S-S-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness.
- 2The quality of being repulsive or disgusting.
- 3Size.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grossness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude.
He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]
Etymology
From gross + -ness.
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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