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helpfulness

/ˈhɛlp.fʊl.nəs/noun

helpfulness is spelled H-E-L-P-F-U-L-N-E-S-S: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, helpfulness means “The quality of being helpful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of helpfulness is helpfulnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in helpfulness?

Letters11: H-E-L-P-F-U-L-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 74,122nd 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 helpfulness?

Helpfulness appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd 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 helpfulness?

  • /ˈhɛlp.fʊl.nəs/
  • /ˈhɛlp.fəl.nəs/

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

Forms of helpfulness

  • helpfulnesses plural

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

What does helpfulness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being helpful.

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

Where does helpfulness come from?

From helpful + -ness.

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

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