sinfulness
"sinfulness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sinfulness” is uncommon English (frequency #83,753 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,753
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The property of being sinful.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sinfulness · sinfulness · English
sinfulness · rank #83,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,753
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH silty
Nearest frequency peer: silty (-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 “sinfulness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shored
shored
16,253 corpus weight
- showery
showery
16,252 corpus weight
- showoff
showoff
16,251 corpus weight
- silty
silty
16,249 corpus weight
- sinfulness
sinfulness
16,248 corpus weight
- sitch
sitch
16,245 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sinfulness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sinfulness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sinfulness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sinfulness is uncommon English at frequency #83,753 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sinfulness doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English synfulnes, synfulnesse, synnefulnysse, equivalent to sinful + -ness. Compare Old English synniġness (“sinfulness”). The correct English form is sinfulness, spelled S-I-N-F-U-L-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The property of being sinful.
- 2The result or product of being sinful.
Etymology
From Middle English synfulnes, synfulnesse, synnefulnysse, equivalent to sinful + -ness. Compare Old English synniġness (“sinfulness”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).