wildness
"wildness" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wildness” is uncommon English (frequency #54,569 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,569
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or quality of being wild.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wildness · wildness · English
wildness · rank #54,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,569
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH whizzing
Nearest frequency peer: whizzing (-2 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 “wildness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- waterborne
waterborne
45,439 corpus weight
- Waziristan
Waziristan
45,438 corpus weight
- whizzing
whizzing
45,434 corpus weight
- wildness
wildness
45,432 corpus weight
- windsurfing
windsurfing
45,430 corpus weight
- witney
witney
45,429 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wildness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wildness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wildness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wildness is uncommon English at frequency #54,569 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or quality of being wild.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for wildness in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English wildenes, wildenesse, equivalent to wild + -ness. The correct English form is wildness, spelled W-I-L-D-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state or quality of being wild.
Etymology
From Middle English wildenes, wildenesse, equivalent to wild + -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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).