sensibleness

noun

"sensibleness" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“sensibleness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The property of being sensible; good sense, common sense.

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Index EN-sensibleness · sensibleness · English

sensibleness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for sensibleness
PropertyValue
Headwordsensibleness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “sensibleness” in English

sensiblenessranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sensibleness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The property of being sensible; good sense, common sense.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sensibleness, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From sensible + -ness. The correct English form is sensibleness, spelled S-E-N-S-I-B-L-E-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    The property of being sensible; good sense, common sense.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sensibleness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. “Talk of my private life”, “widespread press reports of my cronyism and embezzlement”, “my cut-price hair transplant that went hilariously wrong”, “the relentless clip-clop of my amazing shoes” – such things can become a distraction thanks to the silly media and their inability to just sit still and listen to the barrage of sensibleness that the governmen…

Etymology

From sensible + -ness.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sensibleness"?
"sensibleness" is spelled S-E-N-S-I-B-L-E-N-E-S-S.
What does "sensibleness" mean?
As a noun, "sensibleness" means: The property of being sensible; good sense, common sense.
What is the origin of the word "sensibleness"?
From sensible + -ness. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list