obligingness

noun

"obligingness" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“obligingness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of being obliging; the tendency to cater for the desires of others.

Corpus desk

Index EN-obligingness · obligingness · English

obligingness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "O" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for obligingness
PropertyValue
Headwordobligingness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “obligingness” in English

obligingnesssits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

obligingness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality of being obliging; the tendency to cater for the desires of others.".

Zero misspellings are on record for obligingness in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 obliging + -ness. The correct English form is obligingness, spelled O-B-L-I-G-I-N-G-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    The quality of being obliging; the tendency to cater for the desires of others.

Etymology

From obliging + -ness.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "obligingness"?
"obligingness" is spelled O-B-L-I-G-I-N-G-N-E-S-S.
What does "obligingness" mean?
As a noun, "obligingness" means: The quality of being obliging; the tendency to cater for the desires of others.
What is the origin of the word "obligingness"?
From obliging + -ness. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list