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untidiness

noun

untidiness is spelled U-N-T-I-D-I-N-E-S-S: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, untidiness means “The quality of being untidy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of untidiness is untidinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in untidiness?

Letters10: U-N-T-I-D-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 39 million words; the 191,932nd 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 untidiness?

Untidiness appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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 untidiness

  • untidinesses plural

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

What does untidiness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being untidy.

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

Untidiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the quality of being untidy:

LanguageWords
GermanSchlamperei
Spanishdesaseo

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 untidiness come from?

From untidy + -ness.

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

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