unrighteousness
"unrighteousness" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unrighteousness” is uncommon English (frequency #74,619 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,619
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being unrighteous.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unrighteousness · unrighteousness · English
unrighteousness · rank #74,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,619
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unlikable
Nearest frequency peer: unlikable (-1 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 “unrighteousness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unicellular
unicellular
25,386 corpus weight
- unlabeled
unlabeled
25,384 corpus weight
- unlikable
unlikable
25,383 corpus weight
- unrighteous…
unrighteousness
25,382 corpus weight
- unrolled
unrolled
25,381 corpus weight
- Valais
Valais
25,379 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “unrighteousness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unrighteousness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #74,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “unrighteousness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
unrighteousness is uncommon English at frequency #74,619 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being unrighteous.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for unrighteousness, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English unriȝtwisnesse, from Old English unrihtwīsnes; equivalent to un- + righteousness or unrighteous + -ness. The correct English form is unrighteousness, spelled U-N-R-I-G-H-T-E-O-U-S-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state of being unrighteous.
Etymology
From Middle English unriȝtwisnesse, from Old English unrihtwīsnes; equivalent to un- + righteousness or unrighteous + -ness.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).