hairiness
noun
hairiness is spelled H-A-I-R-I-N-E-S-S: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hairiness means “The characteristic of being hairy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hairiness is hairinesses.
How many letters and syllables are in hairiness?
| Letters | 9: H-A-I-R-I-N-E-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is hairiness?
Hairiness appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).
How do you pronounce hairiness?
Hairiness has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-hairiness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hairiness
- hairinesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hairiness mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The characteristic of being hairy.
- 2
A characteristic of yarn: the proportion of fibre ends that stick out and are not embedded in the yarn body.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hairiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the characteristic of being hairy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pilosité |
| Spanish | vellosidad |
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 hairiness come from?
From hairy + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).