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minuteness

/maɪˈn(j)uːt.nɪs/noun

minuteness is spelled M-I-N-U-T-E-N-E-S-S: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, minuteness means “The property of being minute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of minuteness is minutenesses.

How many letters and syllables are in minuteness?

Letters10: M-I-N-U-T-E-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 66 million words; the 255,765th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is minuteness?

Minuteness appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce minuteness?

  • /maɪˈn(j)uːt.nɪs/
  • /-nəs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-minuteness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of minuteness

  • minutenesses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does minuteness mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The property of being minute.

  2. 2

    rareSomething very tiny.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Minuteness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishminuciosidad, acribia, diminutez

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does minuteness come from?

From minute + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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