looseness
/ˈluːsnəs/
"looseness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“looseness” is uncommon English (frequency #79,716 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,716
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.
Corpus desk
Index EN-looseness · looseness · English
looseness · rank #79,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,716
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lowen
Nearest frequency peer: lowen (+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 “looseness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- liman
liman
20,293 corpus weight
- Linares
Linares
20,292 corpus weight
- looseness
looseness
20,285 corpus weight
- lowen
lowen
20,283 corpus weight
- Lurgan
Lurgan
20,280 corpus weight
- LXX
LXX
20,279 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “looseness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | looseness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈluːsnəs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “looseness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
looseness is uncommon English at frequency #79,716 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈluːsnəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for looseness, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From loose + -ness. The correct English form is looseness, spelled L-O-O-S-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.
- 2A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
- 3Moral laxity; licentiousness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how looseness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
See if that nut has too much looseness and tighten it if it does.
Yet goodly court he made still to his Dame, / Pourd out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd [...].
Etymology
From loose + -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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).