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handsomeness

/ˈhænsəmnəs/noun

handsomeness is spelled H-A-N-D-S-O-M-E-N-E-S-S: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, handsomeness means “The quality of being handsome” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of handsomeness is handsomenesses.

How many letters and syllables are in handsomeness?

Letters12: H-A-N-D-S-O-M-E-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 111,684th 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 handsomeness?

Handsomeness appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th 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 handsomeness?

  • /ˈhænsəmnəs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-PerfectSoundWhatever-handsomeness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of handsomeness

  • handsomenesses plural

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

What does handsomeness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being handsome.

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

Handsomeness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense quality of being handsome:

LanguageWords
GermanSchönheit
Portuguesebeleza
Spanishguapura, apostura

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.

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