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incompleteness

noun

incompleteness is spelled I-N-C-O-M-P-L-E-T-E-N-E-S-S: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,114th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, incompleteness means “The state or condition of being not complete” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of incompleteness is incompletenesses.

How many letters and syllables are in incompleteness?

Letters14: I-N-C-O-M-P-L-E-T-E-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 65,114th 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 incompleteness?

Incompleteness appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,114th 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).

Forms of incompleteness

  • incompletenesses plural

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

What does incompleteness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or condition of being not complete.

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

Incompleteness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense incomplete state or condition:

LanguageWords
Frenchincomplétude, incomplétitude
GermanUnvollständigkeit
Portugueseincompletude, incompletitude
Spanishincompletitud, incompletud

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 incompleteness come from?

From incomplete + -ness.

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

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