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vileness

noun

vileness is spelled V-I-L-E-N-E-S-S: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vileness means “The state of being vile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vileness is vilenesses.

How many letters and syllables are in vileness?

Letters8: V-I-L-E-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is vileness?

Vileness appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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).

What rhymes with vileness?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as vileness.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: evilness, liveness.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of vileness

  • vilenesses plural

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

What does vileness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being vile.

  2. 2

    A vile act.

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

Vileness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanNiedertracht, Widerwärtigkeit (the state of being vile), Schändlichkeit, Abscheulichkeit (a vile act)

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 vileness come from?

From vile + -ness.

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

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