hairlessness

noun

"hairlessness" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“hairlessness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The condition or quality of being hairless.

Corpus desk

Index EN-hairlessness · hairlessness · English

hairlessness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "H" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for hairlessness
PropertyValue
Headwordhairlessness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “hairlessness” in English

hairlessnessfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

hairlessness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The condition or quality of being hairless.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hairlessness, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From hairless + -ness. The correct English form is hairlessness, spelled H-A-I-R-L-E-S-S-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    The condition or quality of being hairless.

Etymology

From hairless + -ness.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hairlessness"?
"hairlessness" is spelled H-A-I-R-L-E-S-S-N-E-S-S.
What does "hairlessness" mean?
As a noun, "hairlessness" means: The condition or quality of being hairless.
What is the origin of the word "hairlessness"?
From hairless + -ness. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list