thinness
"thinness" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thinness” is uncommon English (frequency #60,514 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,514
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or quality of being thin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-thinness · thinness · English
thinness · rank #60,514 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,514
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH thankfulness
Nearest frequency peer: thankfulness (-2 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 “thinness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tala
tala
39,494 corpus weight
- Teddington
Teddington
39,491 corpus weight
- thankfulness
thankfulness
39,489 corpus weight
- thinness
thinness
39,487 corpus weight
- tipple
tipple
39,483 corpus weight
- Transnistria
Transnistria
39,481 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “thinness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thinness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “thinness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
thinness is uncommon English at frequency #60,514 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or quality of being thin.".
thinness has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English thynnesse, from Old English þynnes (“thinness, slightness of density, lack of density, tenuity, fluidity, poverty, feebleness of sight, weakness”), equivalent to thin + -ness. The correct English form is thinness, spelled T-H-I-N-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state or quality of being thin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thinness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The beautiful prismatic colours seen on the Labrodore stone are owing to a similar cause, viz. the thinness of the laminæ of which it consists […].
Beyond celebrating the aesthetic value of thinness, pro-anas claim that thinness is a reflection of excellence in other areas of one's life.
Etymology
From Middle English thynnesse, from Old English þynnes (“thinness, slightness of density, lack of density, tenuity, fluidity, poverty, feebleness of sight, weakness”), equivalent to thin + -ness.
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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