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touchiness

noun

touchiness is spelled T-O-U-C-H-I-N-E-S-S: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, touchiness means “The property of being touchy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of touchiness is touchinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in touchiness?

Letters10: T-O-U-C-H-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 74 million words; the 272,462nd 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 touchiness?

Touchiness appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 touchiness

  • touchinesses plural

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

What does touchiness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The property of being touchy.

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

Where does touchiness come from?

From touchy + -ness.

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

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