prettiness

noun

"prettiness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“prettiness” is an uncommon English word, ranked #80,775 in English word frequency and used as a noun.

#80,775
frequency rank, English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The quality of being pretty.

Key facts for prettiness
PropertyValue
Headwordprettiness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#80,775
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “prettiness” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). prettiness lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for prettiness is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #80,775 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The quality of being pretty.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for prettiness, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From pretty + -ness. The correct English form is prettiness, spelled P-R-E-T-T-I-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    The quality of being pretty.

Etymology

From pretty + -ness.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prettiness"?
"prettiness" is spelled P-R-E-T-T-I-N-E-S-S.
What does "prettiness" mean?
As a noun, "prettiness" means: The quality of being pretty.
What is the origin of the word "prettiness"?
From pretty + -ness. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Using “prettiness”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is P-R-E-T-T-I-N-E-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list