rawness
"rawness" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rawness” is uncommon English (frequency #74,437 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,437
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The property of being raw.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rawness · rawness · English
rawness · rank #74,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,437
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rasul
Nearest frequency peer: rasul (-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 “rawness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Rainn
Rainn
25,570 corpus weight
- Ramah
Ramah
25,567 corpus weight
- rasul
rasul
25,566 corpus weight
- rawness
rawness
25,564 corpus weight
- recommit
recommit
25,561 corpus weight
- repetitively
repetitively
25,556 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rawness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rawness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rawness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rawness is uncommon English at frequency #74,437 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The property of being raw.".
rawness doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From raw + -ness. The correct English form is rawness, spelled R-A-W-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The property of being raw.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rawness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow.
Now, in spite of all sorts of defects, all sorts of woollinesses and rawnesses, the American novel is superior to either the English or the French; it is indeed superior, I think, to any European novel […]
Etymology
From raw + -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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