tentativeness
noun
tentativeness is spelled T-E-N-T-A-T-I-V-E-N-E-S-S: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tentativeness means “The characteristic of being tentative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tentativeness is tentativenesses.
How many letters and syllables are in tentativeness?
| Letters | 13: T-E-N-T-A-T-I-V-E-N-E-S-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 45 million words; the 206,808th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tentativeness?
Tentativeness appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).
What rhymes with tentativeness?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tentativeness.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: attentiveness.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tentativeness
- tentativenesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tentativeness mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The characteristic of being tentative.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does tentativeness come from?
From tentative + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).