indecisiveness
"indecisiveness" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“indecisiveness” is uncommon English (frequency #76,875 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,875
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The condition of being indecisive.
Corpus desk
Index EN-indecisiveness · indecisiveness · English
indecisiveness · rank #76,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,875
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH inactivate
Nearest frequency peer: inactivate (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Long-tail ranks near “indecisiveness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- improbabili…
improbability
23,129 corpus weight
- Imtiaz
Imtiaz
23,128 corpus weight
- inactivate
inactivate
23,127 corpus weight
- indecisiven…
indecisiveness
23,126 corpus weight
- indwelling
indwelling
23,125 corpus weight
- ingame
ingame
23,124 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “indecisiveness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indecisiveness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #76,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “indecisiveness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
indecisiveness is uncommon English at frequency #76,875 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The condition of being indecisive.".
No misspelling variants are generated for indecisiveness in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From indecisive + -ness. The correct English form is indecisiveness, spelled I-N-D-E-C-I-S-I-V-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The condition of being indecisive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how indecisiveness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is a picture of dither, delay, unrealistic costings - and Department for Transport indecisiveness.
Etymology
From indecisive + -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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