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tactfulness

noun

tactfulness is spelled T-A-C-T-F-U-L-N-E-S-S: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tactfulness means “The state or quality of being tactful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tactfulness is tactfulnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in tactfulness?

Letters11: T-A-C-T-F-U-L-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 98 million words; the 317,168th 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 tactfulness?

Tactfulness appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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 tactfulness

  • tactfulnesses plural

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

What does tactfulness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being tactful.

    His tactfulness allowed him to be honest without making enemies.

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

Where does tactfulness come from?

From tactful + -ness.

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

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