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tallness

noun

tallness is spelled T-A-L-L-N-E-S-S: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tallness means “The quality or characteristic of being tall” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tallness is tallnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in tallness?

Letters8: T-A-L-L-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 154,067th 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 tallness?

Tallness appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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 tallness

  • tallnesses plural

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

What does tallness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The quality or characteristic of being tall.

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

Tallness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense quality of being tall:

LanguageWords
GermanHöhe, Größe, Körpergröße
Portuguesealtura
Spanishaltura, estatura

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 tallness come from?

From tall + -ness.

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

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