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tackiness

noun

tackiness is spelled T-A-C-K-I-N-E-S-S: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tackiness means “The state of being tacky” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tackiness is tackinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in tackiness?

Letters9: T-A-C-K-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 138,319th 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 tackiness?

Tackiness appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th 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 tackiness

  • tackinesses plural

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

What does tackiness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being tacky

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

Tackiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishhuachafería

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 tackiness come from?

From tacky + -ness.

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

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