orderliness
/ˈɔːdəlɪnəs/noun
orderliness is a noun meaning “The fact of having a regular, proper and systematic arrangement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-R-D-E-R-L-I-N-E-S-S and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of orderliness is orderlinesses.
What does orderliness mean?
noun
- 1
The fact of having a regular, proper and systematic arrangement.
- 2
Orderly behaviour.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce orderliness?
- UK /ˈɔːdəlɪnəs/
Orderliness has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-orderliness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of orderliness
- orderlinesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is orderliness?
Orderliness appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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).
Orderliness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense regularity; proper arrangement:
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 orderliness come from?
From orderly + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).