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uniqueness

noun

uniqueness is spelled U-N-I-Q-U-E-N-E-S-S: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, uniqueness means “The state or quality of being unique or one of a kind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of uniqueness is uniquenesses.

How many letters and syllables are in uniqueness?

Letters10: U-N-I-Q-U-E-N-E-S-S
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.6 times per million words; the 22,073rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is uniqueness?

Uniqueness appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd 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 uniqueness?

  • US

Uniqueness has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-uniqueness.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of uniqueness

  • uniquenesses plural

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

What does uniqueness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being unique or one of a kind.

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

Uniqueness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense state or quality of being unique or one of a kind:

LanguageWords
Frenchunicité
GermanEinmaligkeit, Einzigkeit, Eindeutigkeit, Eigenart
Portugueseunicidade
Spanishpeculiaridad, singularidad, unicidad

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 uniqueness come from?

From unique + -ness.

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

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