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waviness

noun

waviness is spelled W-A-V-I-N-E-S-S: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, waviness means “The quality of being wavy; the extent to which something is wavy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of waviness is wavinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in waviness?

Letters8: W-A-V-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 35 million words; the 182,517th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is waviness?

Waviness appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).

Forms of waviness

  • wavinesses plural

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

What does waviness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being wavy; the extent to which something is wavy.

  2. 2

    A tendency to form waves or curls.

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

Where does waviness come from?

From wavy + -ness.

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

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