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silkiness

noun

silkiness is spelled S-I-L-K-I-N-E-S-S: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, silkiness means “The property of being silky” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of silkiness is silkinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in silkiness?

Letters9: S-I-L-K-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th 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 silkiness?

Silkiness appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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 silkiness

  • silkinesses plural

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

What does silkiness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The property of being silky.

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

Where does silkiness come from?

From silky + -ness.

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

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