guiltiness
"guiltiness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guiltiness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being guilty; guilt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guiltiness · guiltiness · English
guiltiness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guiltiness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “guiltiness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
guiltiness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being guilty; guilt.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for guiltiness, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English giltines; equivalent to guilty + -ness. The correct English form is guiltiness, spelled G-U-I-L-T-I-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state of being guilty; guilt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guiltiness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
those speculative relapsers, that have, out of policy, or guiltiness, abandoned a known and received truth
Etymology
From Middle English giltines; equivalent to guilty + -ness.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.