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roundness

noun

roundness is spelled R-O-U-N-D-N-E-S-S: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 76,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, roundness means “The degree of accuracy to which a manufactured object intended to be round fulfills that requirement; it is measured by parameters such as TIR (total…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of roundness is roundnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in roundness?

Letters9: R-O-U-N-D-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 76,798th 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 roundness?

Roundness appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 76,798th 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).

Forms of roundness

  • roundnesses plural

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

What does roundness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The degree of accuracy to which a manufactured object intended to be round fulfills that requirement; it is measured by parameters such as TIR (total indicator reading).

  2. 2

    Synonym of rotundity.

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

Where does roundness come from?

From Middle English roundnesse, equivalent to round + -ness.

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

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