strictness
"strictness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“strictness” is uncommon English (frequency #75,453 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,453
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or quality of being strict.
Corpus desk
Index EN-strictness · strictness · English
strictness · rank #75,453 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,453
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Stourbridge
Nearest frequency peer: Stourbridge (-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 “strictness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stoping
stoping
24,551 corpus weight
- stour
stour
24,550 corpus weight
- Stourbridge
Stourbridge
24,549 corpus weight
- strictness
strictness
24,548 corpus weight
- Sukhoi
Sukhoi
24,545 corpus weight
- sulfite
sulfite
24,544 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “strictness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strictness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “strictness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
strictness is uncommon English at frequency #75,453 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
strictness has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From strict + -ness. The correct English form is strictness, spelled S-T-R-I-C-T-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state or quality of being strict.
- 2The result or product of being strict.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how strictness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Discipline calls for a certain strictness.
I lost all restraint, and yielding to the force of the emotion, gave down, as mere woman, those effusions of pleasure, which, in the strictness of still faithful love, I could have wished to have held up.
Etymology
From strict + -ness.
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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