tediosity

noun

"tediosity" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“tediosity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of being tedious.

Corpus desk

Index EN-tediosity · tediosity · English

tediosity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "T" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for tediosity
PropertyValue
Headwordtediosity
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “tediosity” in English

tediositysits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tediosity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality of being tedious.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tediosity, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English tediosite, tediouste, tedyosite, from tedious; compare Middle French tedieuseté. The correct English form is tediosity, spelled T-E-D-I-O-S-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    The quality of being tedious.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tediosity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Fy, fy, what tedioſity, & diſenſanity is here among ye?
  2. With barely a pretence of plot it was a feast of tediosity.

Etymology

From Middle English tediosite, tediouste, tedyosite, from tedious; compare Middle French tedieuseté.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tediosity"?
"tediosity" is spelled T-E-D-I-O-S-I-T-Y.
What does "tediosity" mean?
As a noun, "tediosity" means: The quality of being tedious.
What is the origin of the word "tediosity"?
From Middle English tediosite, tediouste, tedyosite, from tedious; compare Middle French tedieuseté. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list