liveliness
/ˈlaɪvlinəs/
"liveliness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“liveliness” is uncommon English (frequency #68,391 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,391
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of being lively.
Corpus desk
Index EN-liveliness · liveliness · English
liveliness · rank #68,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,391
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Littlewood
Nearest frequency peer: Littlewood (-1 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 “liveliness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Levene
Levene
31,616 corpus weight
- Limehouse
Limehouse
31,613 corpus weight
- Littlewood
Littlewood
31,611 corpus weight
- liveliness
liveliness
31,610 corpus weight
- LMC
LMC
31,608 corpus weight
- lockstep
lockstep
31,603 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “liveliness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | liveliness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlaɪvlinəs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “liveliness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
liveliness is uncommon English at frequency #68,391 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈlaɪvlinəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality of being lively.".
liveliness has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From lively + -ness. The correct English form is liveliness, spelled L-I-V-E-L-I-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality of being lively.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how liveliness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The response to firing is remarkable, and though the 280 lb. pressure seems more in the nature of a reserve for emergencies than a continuous working figure, even with the present-day apology for coal it seldom fell below 250 lb., and could always be brought up to blowing-off point with little difficulty. To this liveliness of steaming the thermic syphons…
Etymology
From lively + -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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