stubbornness
/ˈstʌbɚn(n)əs/noun
stubbornness is spelled S-T-U-B-B-O-R-N-N-E-S-S. The wrong spelling people search most is stubborness: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Stubbornness is a noun meaning “The state of being stubborn”. The plural of stubbornness is stubbornnesses.
How many letters and syllables are in stubbornness?
| Letters | 12: S-T-U-B-B-O-R-N-N-E-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 35,748th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, stubborness, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell stubbornness?
Stubbornness is spelled S-T-U-B-B-O-R-N-N-E-S-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for stubbornness in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is stubbornness?
Stubbornness appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th 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 stubbornness?
- UK /ˈstʌbən(n)əs/
- US /ˈstʌbɚn(n)əs/
Stubbornness has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-stubbornness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of stubbornness
- stubbornnesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stubbornness mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state of being stubborn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stubbornness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense state of being stubborn:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | entêtement |
| German | Sturheit |
| Portuguese | teimosia |
| Spanish | testarudez, terquedad, cerrazón, cabezonería |
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 stubbornness come from?
From stubborn + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).