quirkiness
"quirkiness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quirkiness” is uncommon English (frequency #78,976 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,976
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being quirky.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quirkiness · quirkiness · English
quirkiness · rank #78,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,976
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH R0
Nearest frequency peer: R0 (+2 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 “quirkiness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- PWI
PWI
21,031 corpus weight
- qualia
qualia
21,029 corpus weight
- quirkiness
quirkiness
21,025 corpus weight
- R0
R0
21,023 corpus weight
- Raimondo
Raimondo
21,020 corpus weight
- ranga
ranga
21,017 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “quirkiness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quirkiness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “quirkiness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quirkiness is uncommon English at frequency #78,976 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
quirkiness has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From quirky + -ness. The correct English form is quirkiness, spelled Q-U-I-R-K-I-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state of being quirky.
- 2A specific quirky aspect of a person or thing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quirkiness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Your quirkiness is so endearing.
Chacombe: The one-bedroomed holiday home built into the mouth of the Great Central Railway tunnel, on the former Banbury-Northampton route, has won a number of awards for its quirkiness.
Etymology
From quirky + -ness.
This word in other languages
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).