sightedness
"sightedness" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sightedness” is uncommon English (frequency #76,337 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,337
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of being sighted, or having the ability to see.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sightedness · sightedness · English
sightedness · rank #76,337 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,337
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sidmouth
Nearest frequency peer: Sidmouth (-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 “sightedness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shiller
shiller
23,671 corpus weight
- Sidmouth
Sidmouth
23,665 corpus weight
- sightedness
sightedness
23,664 corpus weight
- signore
signore
23,663 corpus weight
- sisal
sisal
23,660 corpus weight
- slavish
slavish
23,658 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sightedness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sightedness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sightedness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sightedness is uncommon English at frequency #76,337 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality of being sighted, or having the ability to see.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sightedness in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sighted + -ness. The correct English form is sightedness, spelled S-I-G-H-T-E-D-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality of being sighted, or having the ability to see.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sightedness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bill said that he learned to be tactful — if Art asked where something was, a telephone for example, Bill would feign not knowing himself, so as not to emphasize his sightedness, then appear to find out and tell him.
Etymology
From sighted + -ness.
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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