puckishness
"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
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puckishness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “puckishness” in English
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
- 1An instance of being puckish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puckishness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.