meekness
"meekness" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meekness” is uncommon English (frequency #75,197 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,197
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or quality of being meek.
Corpus desk
Index EN-meekness · meekness · English
meekness · rank #75,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,197
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Megs
Nearest frequency peer: Megs (+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 “meekness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McCreary
McCreary
24,809 corpus weight
- McMorris
McMorris
24,807 corpus weight
- McPhail
McPhail
24,806 corpus weight
- meekness
meekness
24,804 corpus weight
- Megs
Megs
24,803 corpus weight
- meltwater
meltwater
24,801 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “meekness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meekness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “meekness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
meekness is uncommon English at frequency #75,197 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or quality of being meek.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for meekness, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mekenesse, meknes, meocnesse; equivalent to meek + -ness. The correct English form is meekness, spelled M-E-E-K-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state or quality of being meek.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meekness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But thou, O man of God, flie these things; and follow after righteousnesse, godlinesse, faith, loue, patience, meekenesse.
Nor could Pym fail to notice that his old friend in rendering account of himself assumed the familiar meekness of the displaced person in the presence of his betters.
Etymology
From Middle English mekenesse, meknes, meocnesse; equivalent to meek + -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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).