vividness
"vividness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vividness” is uncommon English (frequency #85,919 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,919
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality or state of being vivid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vividness · vividness · English
vividness · rank #85,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,919
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH virulently
Nearest frequency peer: virulently (-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 “vividness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- viney
viney
14,086 corpus weight
- virulently
virulently
14,083 corpus weight
- vividness
vividness
14,082 corpus weight
- Vliet
Vliet
14,081 corpus weight
- voyaging
voyaging
14,079 corpus weight
- waggon
waggon
14,075 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “vividness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vividness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vividness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vividness is uncommon English at frequency #85,919 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality or state of being vivid.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vividness, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From vivid + -ness. The correct English form is vividness, spelled V-I-V-I-D-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality or state of being vivid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vividness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I felt light-headed; grotesque hallucinations materialised before me with startling vividness.
As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.
Etymology
From vivid + -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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