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savageness

noun

savageness is spelled S-A-V-A-G-E-N-E-S-S: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, savageness means “The property of being savage or behaving savagely” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of savageness is savagenesses.

How many letters and syllables are in savageness?

Letters10: S-A-V-A-G-E-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 171,907th 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 savageness?

Savageness appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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 savageness

  • savagenesses plural

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

What does savageness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The property of being savage or behaving savagely.

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

Savageness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense property of behaving savagely – see also savagery:

LanguageWords
GermanWildheit, Roheit, Grausamkeit, Wut, Bissigkeit
Spanishselvatiquez

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 savageness come from?

From savage + -ness.

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

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