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innateness

noun

innateness is spelled I-N-N-A-T-E-N-E-S-S: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, innateness means “The condition of being innate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of innateness is innatenesses.

How many letters and syllables are in innateness?

Letters10: I-N-N-A-T-E-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 58 million words; the 237,177th 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 innateness?

Innateness appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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 innateness

  • innatenesses plural

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

What does innateness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The condition of being innate.

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

Innateness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchinnéité, caractère inné
Spanishinnatismo

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 innateness come from?

From innate + -ness.

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

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