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tawdriness

noun

tawdriness is spelled T-A-W-D-R-I-N-E-S-S: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tawdriness means “The property of being tawdry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tawdriness is tawdrinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in tawdriness?

Letters10: T-A-W-D-R-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 81 million words; the 286,585th 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 tawdriness?

Tawdriness appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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 tawdriness

  • tawdrinesses plural

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

What does tawdriness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The property of being tawdry.

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

Where does tawdriness come from?

From tawdry + -ness.

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

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