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oddness

noun

oddness is spelled O-D-D-N-E-S-S: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, oddness means “The state or quality of being odd” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of oddness is oddnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in oddness?

Letters7: O-D-D-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 100,430th 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 oddness?

Oddness appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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 oddness?

  • US

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

Forms of oddness

  • oddnesses plural

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

What does oddness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being odd.

  2. 2

    The result or product of being odd.

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

Where does oddness come from?

From Middle English oddenesse; equivalent to odd + -ness.

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

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