humbleness
"humbleness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“humbleness” is uncommon English (frequency #79,605 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,605
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Modesty, humility; the property of being humble.
Corpus desk
Index EN-humbleness · humbleness · English
humbleness · rank #79,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,605
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH humoured
Nearest frequency peer: humoured (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “humbleness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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horcrux
20,401 corpus weight
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housecleaning
20,400 corpus weight
- Howley
Howley
20,398 corpus weight
- humbleness
humbleness
20,396 corpus weight
- humoured
humoured
20,395 corpus weight
- hungrily
hungrily
20,393 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “humbleness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humbleness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “humbleness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
humbleness is uncommon English at frequency #79,605 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Modesty, humility; the property of being humble.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for humbleness in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English humblenesse; equivalent to humble + -ness. The correct English form is humbleness, spelled H-U-M-B-L-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Modesty, humility; the property of being humble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how humbleness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness fai…
Etymology
From Middle English humblenesse; equivalent to humble + -ness.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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