stillness
/ˈstɪlnəs/
"stillness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stillness” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,846. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,846
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality or state of being still.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stillness · stillness · English
stillness · rank #29,846 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,846
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH structuring
Nearest frequency peer: structuring (+2 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “stillness”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- snatching
snatching
70,160 corpus weight
- snooze
snooze
70,159 corpus weight
- stillness
stillness
70,155 corpus weight
- structuring
structuring
70,153 corpus weight
- stupidly
stupidly
70,152 corpus weight
- subculture
subculture
70,151 corpus weight
What this shows “stillness” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stillness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈstɪlnəs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “stillness”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around stillness (IPA /ˈstɪlnəs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,846 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for stillness, with forms such as "sitllness", "sstillness", and "stillenss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "stiffness", "silliness", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English stilnesse, from Old English stilnes (“stillness, quiet; absence of noise or disturbance, release, relaxation; silence, abstention from speech; absence of disturbance or molestation, tranquility, peace, security; that which appeases”), eq… The correct English form is stillness, spelled S-T-I-L-L-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality or state of being still.
- 2Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stillness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The teru-tero (Vanellus cayanensis), is another bird, which often disturbs the stillness of the night.
It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the movement and the stillness after, the quickenings and retardings…
Etymology
From Middle English stilnesse, from Old English stilnes (“stillness, quiet; absence of noise or disturbance, release, relaxation; silence, abstention from speech; absence of disturbance or molestation, tranquility, peace, security; that which appeases”), equivalent to still + -ness.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sitllness
- sstillness
- stillenss
- stillnes
- stillnness
- stillnses
- stilness
- stilnless
- stlilness
- sttillness
- tsillness
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stillness - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).