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unreadiness

noun

unreadiness is spelled U-N-R-E-A-D-I-N-E-S-S: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, unreadiness means “A lack of readiness, or state of being unready” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of unreadiness is unreadinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in unreadiness?

Letters11: U-N-R-E-A-D-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd 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 unreadiness?

Unreadiness appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 unreadiness

  • unreadinesses plural

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

What does unreadiness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A lack of readiness, or state of being unready

    Your agency's unreadiness is very disturbing.

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

Where does unreadiness come from?

From unready + -ness.

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

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