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remoteness

noun

remoteness is spelled R-E-M-O-T-E-N-E-S-S: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, remoteness means “The quality of being remote” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of remoteness is remotenesses.

How many letters and syllables are in remoteness?

Letters10: R-E-M-O-T-E-N-E-S-S
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 48,775th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is remoteness?

Remoteness appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th 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 remoteness?

    Remoteness has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

    Forms of remoteness

    • remotenesses plural

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

    What does remoteness mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      The quality of being remote.

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

    Remoteness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense quality of being remote:

    LanguageWords
    Frenchéloignement
    GermanAbgelegenheit
    Portugueselonginquidade
    Spanishlejanía

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

    Where does remoteness come from?

    From remote + -ness.

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

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