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spitefulness

noun

spitefulness is spelled S-P-I-T-E-F-U-L-N-E-S-S: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spitefulness means “The state or quality of being spiteful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of spitefulness is spitefulnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in spitefulness?

Letters12: S-P-I-T-E-F-U-L-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 36 million words; the 184,844th 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 spitefulness?

Spitefulness appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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 spitefulness

  • spitefulnesses plural

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

What does spitefulness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being spiteful.

  2. 2

    The result or product of being spiteful.

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

Spitefulness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanGehässigkeit, Boshaftigkeit, Bosheit (state or quality of being spiteful), Niederträchtigkeit (result or product of being spiteful)

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 spitefulness come from?

From spiteful + -ness.

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

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