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unfriendliness

noun

unfriendliness is spelled U-N-F-R-I-E-N-D-L-I-N-E-S-S: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, unfriendliness means “The state of being unfriendly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of unfriendliness is unfriendlinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in unfriendliness?

Letters14: U-N-F-R-I-E-N-D-L-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th 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 unfriendliness?

Unfriendliness appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).

How do you pronounce unfriendliness?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-unfriendliness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of unfriendliness

  • unfriendlinesses plural

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

What does unfriendliness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being unfriendly.

  2. 2

    An unfriendly act; unfriendly acts or actions.

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

Unfriendliness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanUnfreundlichkeit (the quality of being unfriendly), Unfreundlichkeiten (an unfriendly act, unfriendly acts / actions)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does unfriendliness come from?

From unfriendly + -ness. Compare Dutch onvriendelijkheid, German Unfreundlichkeit.

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

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