nearness
"nearness" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nearness” is uncommon English (frequency #71,729 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,729
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being near; closeness; intimacy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nearness · nearness · English
nearness · rank #71,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,729
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Nazarbayev
Nearest frequency peer: Nazarbayev (-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 “nearness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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28,274 corpus weight
- Nazarbayev
Nazarbayev
28,273 corpus weight
- nearness
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28,272 corpus weight
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28,270 corpus weight
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What this shows Long-tail view: where “nearness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nearness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nearness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nearness is uncommon English at frequency #71,729 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
nearness doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English nernes, equivalent to near + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian nearens (“nearness”). The correct English form is nearness, spelled N-E-A-R-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state of being near; closeness; intimacy.
- 2Stinginess.
Etymology
From Middle English nernes, equivalent to near + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian nearens (“nearness”).
Antonyms
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).