incredulousness
"incredulousness" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“incredulousness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Incredulity; the state of being skeptical or in disbelief
Corpus desk
Index EN-incredulousness · incredulousness · English
incredulousness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incredulousness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “incredulousness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
incredulousness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Incredulity; the state of being skeptical or in disbelief".
No misspelling variants are generated for incredulousness in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From incredulous + -ness. The correct English form is incredulousness, spelled I-N-C-R-E-D-U-L-O-U-S-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Incredulity; the state of being skeptical or in disbelief
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how incredulousness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Perhaps, one ought not to be surprised that a sudden announcement of success, even though professing to be founded upon the positive testimony of personal observation, should be met by incredulousness.
Tim O'Brien, who wrote a novel about war, has captured here the sense of incredulousness and theatricality he had while being shot at in Vietnam.
Etymology
From incredulous + -ness.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.