tardiness
"tardiness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tardiness” is uncommon English (frequency #57,757 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,757
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or quality of being tardy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tardiness · tardiness · English
tardiness · rank #57,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,757
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tamoxifen
Nearest frequency peer: tamoxifen (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “tardiness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tallow
tallow
42,247 corpus weight
- Talmudic
Talmudic
42,246 corpus weight
- tamoxifen
tamoxifen
42,245 corpus weight
- tardiness
tardiness
42,244 corpus weight
- tarry
tarry
42,243 corpus weight
- Tartarus
Tartarus
42,242 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tardiness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tardiness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tardiness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tardiness is uncommon English at frequency #57,757 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tardiness in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tardy + -ness. The correct English form is tardiness, spelled T-A-R-D-I-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state or quality of being tardy.
- 2The result or product of being tardy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tardiness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Some ten years ago, an evening excursion train from the Walsall area to Manchester, when travelling well over the heavily-graded Walsall-Rugeley line, was brought to a stand at a level crossing at Hednesford by the tardiness of a gatekeeper, who was pottering about in his garden instead of attending to his duties.
Etymology
From tardy + -ness.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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