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raunchiness

raun·chi·ness/ˈɹɔnt͡ʃinəs/noun

raunchiness is spelled R-A-U-N-C-H-I-N-E-S-S: 11 letters and 3 syllables (raun·chi·ness). It appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, raunchiness means “The characteristic of being raunchy; sleaze, titillation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in raunchiness?

Letters11: R-A-U-N-C-H-I-N-E-S-S
Syllables3: raun·chi·ness
In writingabout once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd 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 raunchiness?

Raunchiness appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 raunchiness?

  • UK /ˈɹɔːn(t)ʃɪnəs/
  • US /ˈɹɔnt͡ʃinəs/

Raunchiness has 3 syllables, split raun·chi·ness in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-raunchiness.ogg, En-au-raunchiness.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does raunchiness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The characteristic of being raunchy; sleaze, titillation.

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

Where does raunchiness come from?

From raunchy + -ness.

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

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