shallowness
"shallowness" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shallowness” is uncommon English (frequency #76,323 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,323
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The property of being shallow; having little depth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shallowness · shallowness · English
shallowness · rank #76,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,323
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH SGR
Nearest frequency peer: SGR (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “shallowness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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23,678 corpus weight
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23,675 corpus weight
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What this shows Long-tail view: where “shallowness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shallowness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shallowness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shallowness is uncommon English at frequency #76,323 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The property of being shallow; having little depth.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shallowness in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From shallow + -ness. The correct English form is shallowness, spelled S-H-A-L-L-O-W-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The property of being shallow; having little depth.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shallowness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The dimensions of the ships used on this service have always been restricted by the shallowness of the Lymington River, although the Lymington was somewhat larger than her predecessors, and was the first steel vessel built for this service.
Etymology
From shallow + -ness.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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