maleness
"maleness" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“maleness” is uncommon English (frequency #81,535 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,535
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The characteristic, state or condition of being male.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maleness · maleness · English
maleness · rank #81,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,535
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH maintainabili…
Nearest frequency peer: maintainability (-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 “maleness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Mahwah
Mahwah
18,469 corpus weight
- maintainabi…
maintainability
18,468 corpus weight
- maleness
maleness
18,466 corpus weight
- Manistee
Manistee
18,464 corpus weight
- Maoism
Maoism
18,463 corpus weight
- marikina
marikina
18,460 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “maleness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maleness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “maleness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
maleness is uncommon English at frequency #81,535 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The characteristic, state or condition of being male.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for maleness, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From male + -ness. The correct English form is maleness, spelled M-A-L-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The characteristic, state or condition of being male.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maleness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They had always lived over the pub with its buzz of voices. Bar talk. When she was fifteen she had come home one night from the school concert just about closing time. Men were coming out on to the street and she could hear her father's voice calling time. She had heard this scene every night from upstairs and been afraid of it - the loud voices, the shou…
Etymology
From male + -ness.
Synonyms
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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