impulsiveness
"impulsiveness" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“impulsiveness” is uncommon English (frequency #75,986 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,986
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of being impulsive.
Corpus desk
Index EN-impulsiveness · impulsiveness · English
impulsiveness · rank #75,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,986
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH impermanent
Nearest frequency peer: impermanent (-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 “impulsiveness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- immunosuppr…
immunosuppression
24,017 corpus weight
- impermanent
impermanent
24,016 corpus weight
- impulsivene…
impulsiveness
24,015 corpus weight
- incommunica…
incommunicado
24,014 corpus weight
- Indic
Indic
24,013 corpus weight
- indiscipline
indiscipline
24,012 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “impulsiveness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impulsiveness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #75,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “impulsiveness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
impulsiveness is uncommon English at frequency #75,986 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality of being impulsive.".
Zero misspellings are on record for impulsiveness in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From impulsive + -ness. The correct English form is impulsiveness, spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-I-V-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality of being impulsive.
Etymology
From impulsive + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).