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horniness

noun

horniness is spelled H-O-R-N-I-N-E-S-S: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, horniness means “Quality of being horny, of having a texture like horn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in horniness?

Letters9: H-O-R-N-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 15 million words; the 115,751st 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 horniness?

Horniness appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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 horniness?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-horniness.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does horniness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Quality of being horny, of having a texture like horn.

    the horniness of a hoof

  2. 2

    slangvulgarThe state, quality, or extent of being horny or sexually excited.

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

Horniness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense sexual excitement:

LanguageWords
GermanGeilheit
Spanishcalentón, calentura, arrechura, arrechera

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 horniness come from?

From horny + -ness.

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

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