peacefulness
"peacefulness" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“peacefulness” is uncommon English (frequency #74,381 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,381
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being peaceful.
Corpus desk
Index EN-peacefulness · peacefulness · English
peacefulness · rank #74,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,381
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pastorate
Nearest frequency peer: pastorate (-3 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 “peacefulness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- owt
owt
25,627 corpus weight
- palpably
palpably
25,626 corpus weight
- paperboy
paperboy
25,625 corpus weight
- pastorate
pastorate
25,623 corpus weight
- peacefulness
peacefulness
25,620 corpus weight
- peplum
peplum
25,615 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “peacefulness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peacefulness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #74,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “peacefulness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
peacefulness is uncommon English at frequency #74,381 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being peaceful.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for peacefulness, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From peaceful + -ness. The correct English form is peacefulness, spelled P-E-A-C-E-F-U-L-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state of being peaceful.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how peacefulness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
His trust in God was exemplified in his constant peacefulness and freedom from all concern on the question of supplies, no matter how unassuring the outlook happened to be.
Etymology
From peaceful + -ness.
Synonyms
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).