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weirdness

/ˈwɪɚdnəs/noun

weirdness is spelled W-E-I-R-D-N-E-S-S: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, weirdness means “The state or quality of being weird” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of weirdness is weirdnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in weirdness?

Letters9: W-E-I-R-D-N-E-S-S
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 31,974th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is weirdness?

Weirdness appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th 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).

How do you pronounce weirdness?

  • US /ˈwɪɚdnəs/

Weirdness has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

Forms of weirdness

  • weirdnesses plural

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

What does weirdness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being weird.

  2. 2

    The result or product of being weird.

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

Where does weirdness come from?

From weird + -ness.

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

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