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puffiness

noun

puffiness is spelled P-U-F-F-I-N-E-S-S: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 99,289th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, puffiness means “The state or quality of being puffy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of puffiness is puffinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in puffiness?

Letters9: P-U-F-F-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 99,289th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is puffiness?

Puffiness appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 99,289th 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).

How do you pronounce puffiness?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-puffiness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of puffiness

  • puffinesses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does puffiness mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being puffy.

    The puffiness under her eyes made her look older than she really was.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does puffiness come from?

From puffy + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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