puckishness

noun

"puckishness" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An instance of being puckish.

Corpus desk

Index EN-puckishness · puckishness · English

puckishness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for puckishness
PropertyValue
Headwordpuckishness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “puckishness” in English

puckishnessfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

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

Rare enough to double-check

puckishness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An instance of being puckish.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for puckishness in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From puckish + -ness. The correct English form is puckishness, spelled P-U-C-K-I-S-H-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    An instance of being puckish.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how puckishness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. There was some puckishness to this […] but Walinksy is a serious man and he wasn't really joking.

Etymology

From puckish + -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 "puckishness"?
"puckishness" is spelled P-U-C-K-I-S-H-N-E-S-S.
What does "puckishness" mean?
As a noun, "puckishness" means: An instance of being puckish.
What is the origin of the word "puckishness"?
From puckish + -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