viciousness
"viciousness" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“viciousness” is uncommon English (frequency #71,207 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,207
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - the characteristic of being vicious
Corpus desk
Index EN-viciousness · viciousness · English
viciousness · rank #71,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,207
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vicomte
Nearest frequency peer: vicomte (+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 “viciousness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unenthusias…
unenthusiastic
28,804 corpus weight
- usefull
usefull
28,802 corpus weight
- viciousness
viciousness
28,794 corpus weight
- vicomte
vicomte
28,793 corpus weight
- Vosges
Vosges
28,792 corpus weight
- Welwyn
Welwyn
28,786 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “viciousness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viciousness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #71,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “viciousness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
viciousness is uncommon English at frequency #71,207 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for viciousness, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English viciousnesse; equivalent to vicious + -ness. The correct English form is viciousness, spelled V-I-C-I-O-U-S-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1the characteristic of being vicious
- 2the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty
Etymology
From Middle English viciousnesse; equivalent to vicious + -ness.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).