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stuffiness

noun

stuffiness is spelled S-T-U-F-F-I-N-E-S-S: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stuffiness means “The state or quality of being angry and obstinate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stuffiness is stuffinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in stuffiness?

Letters10: S-T-U-F-F-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 139,999th 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 stuffiness?

Stuffiness appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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 stuffiness

  • stuffinesses plural

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

What does stuffiness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being angry and obstinate.

  2. 2

    The state or quality of being poorly-ventilated and close.

  3. 3

    rareThe result or product of being stuffy.

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

Where does stuffiness come from?

From stuffy + -ness.

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

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