usefulness
use·ful·ness/ˈjuːsfəlnəs/noun
usefulness is spelled U-S-E-F-U-L-N-E-S-S, 3 syllables: use·ful·ness. The wrong spelling people search most is usefullness: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Usefulness is a noun meaning “The quality or degree of being useful”. The plural of usefulness is usefulnesses.
How many letters and syllables are in usefulness?
| Letters | 10: U-S-E-F-U-L-N-E-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: use·ful·ness |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, usefullness, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell usefulness?
Usefulness is spelled U-S-E-F-U-L-N-E-S-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for usefulness in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is usefulness?
Usefulness appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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 usefulness?
- /ˈjuːsfəlnəs/
Usefulness has 3 syllables, split use·ful·ness in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-usefulness.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of usefulness
- usefulnesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does usefulness mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quality or degree of being useful.
The usefulness of his latest reorganisation has been disputed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Usefulness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense quality of being useful:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | utilité |
| German | Nützlichkeit |
| Portuguese | utilidade |
| Spanish | utilidad |
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 usefulness come from?
From useful + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).