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sexiness

/ˈsɛksinəs/noun

sexiness is spelled S-E-X-I-N-E-S-S. The wrong spelling people search most is sexyness: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Sexiness is a noun meaning “The state or quality of being sexy, of possessing the traits of sexual appeal”. The plural of sexiness is sexinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in sexiness?

Letters8: S-E-X-I-N-E-S-S
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 47,073rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, sexyness, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell sexiness?

Sexiness is spelled S-E-X-I-N-E-S-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for sexiness in either form.

sexinessthe right spelling60 searches a month
sexynessy in place of i30 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is sexiness?

Sexiness appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd 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 sexiness?

  • US /ˈsɛksinəs/

Sexiness 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-sexiness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of sexiness

  • sexinesses plural

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

What does sexiness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being sexy, of possessing the traits of sexual appeal.

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

Sexiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense state or quality of being sexy:

LanguageWords
GermanSexiness, Sexyheit

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 sexiness come from?

From sexy + -ness.

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

What to look up after sexiness