watchfulness
"watchfulness" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“watchfulness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or quality of being watchful; alertness, vigilance or wakefulness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-watchfulness · watchfulness · English
watchfulness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | watchfulness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “watchfulness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
watchfulness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or quality of being watchful; alertness, vigilance or wakefulness.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for watchfulness in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From watchful + -ness. The correct English form is watchfulness, spelled W-A-T-C-H-F-U-L-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state or quality of being watchful; alertness, vigilance or wakefulness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how watchfulness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Continuous watchfulness is maintained around the clock.
The first thing to be undertaken in this weighty work, is a watchfulness over the failings and an inlargement of the dominion, of the Senses.
Etymology
From watchful + -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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.