spiciness
"spiciness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spiciness” is uncommon English (frequency #91,009 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,009
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The property of being spicy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spiciness · spiciness · English
spiciness · rank #91,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,009
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spiderweb
Nearest frequency peer: spiderweb (+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 “spiciness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Smet
Smet
9,000 corpus weight
- SOTU
SOTU
8,996 corpus weight
- spiciness
spiciness
8,992 corpus weight
- spiderweb
spiderweb
8,991 corpus weight
- splanchnic
splanchnic
8,990 corpus weight
- squee
squee
8,988 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spiciness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spiciness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spiciness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spiciness is uncommon English at frequency #91,009 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The property of being spicy.".
Zero misspellings are on record for spiciness in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From spicy + -ness. The correct English form is spiciness, spelled S-P-I-C-I-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The property of being spicy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spiciness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A food that has both some sweet qualities and a hidden kick of spiciness may be described as swicy.
Etymology
From spicy + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).