Jewishness
"jewishness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Jewishness” is uncommon English (frequency #69,159 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,159
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The property of being Jewish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jewishness · Jewishness · English
Jewishness · rank #69,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,159
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH jeepers
Nearest frequency peer: jeepers (-2 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 “Jewishness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Jawad
Jawad
30,847 corpus weight
- jeepers
jeepers
30,844 corpus weight
- Jewishness
Jewishness
30,842 corpus weight
- JIS
JIS
30,840 corpus weight
- jist
jist
30,839 corpus weight
- Judaic
Judaic
30,835 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Jewishness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jewishness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Jewishness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Jewishness is uncommon English at frequency #69,159 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The property of being Jewish.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Jewishness in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Jewish + -ness. The correct English form is Jewishness, spelled J-E-W-I-S-H-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The property of being Jewish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Jewishness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When I first knew you I was struck by your pride in your Jewishness, but as far as I knew you weren't yet a lesbian. Can you ttell me something about how you came to terms with these two parts of yourself?
When Zack Galifianakis asks Paul Rudd about his Jewishness in “Between Two Ferns: The Movie,” the actor responds with a quip.
Etymology
From Jewish + -ness.
This word in other languages
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).