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slipperiness

noun

slipperiness is spelled S-L-I-P-P-E-R-I-N-E-S-S: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, slipperiness means “The property of being slippery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of slipperiness is slipperinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in slipperiness?

Letters12: S-L-I-P-P-E-R-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 19 million words; the 131,834th 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 slipperiness?

Slipperiness appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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 slipperiness?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-slipperiness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of slipperiness

  • slipperinesses plural

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

What does slipperiness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The property of being slippery.

  2. 2

    The result or product of being slippery.

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

Slipperiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense property of being slippery:

LanguageWords
GermanSchlüpfrigkeit
Spanishresbalosidad

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 slipperiness come from?

From slippery + -ness.

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

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