worthlessness
"worthlessness" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“worthlessness” is uncommon English (frequency #76,476 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,476
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.
Corpus desk
Index EN-worthlessness · worthlessness · English
worthlessness · rank #76,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,476
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH workmanlike
Nearest frequency peer: workmanlike (-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 “worthlessness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wonderfull
wonderfull
23,530 corpus weight
- woodshed
woodshed
23,529 corpus weight
- Woonsocket
Woonsocket
23,527 corpus weight
- workmanlike
workmanlike
23,526 corpus weight
- worthlessne…
worthlessness
23,525 corpus weight
- Wotan
Wotan
23,524 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “worthlessness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | worthlessness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #76,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “worthlessness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
worthlessness is uncommon English at frequency #76,476 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.".
worthlessness has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: worthless + -ness The correct English form is worthlessness, spelled W-O-R-T-H-L-E-S-S-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how worthlessness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kids these days far too often attribute low academic grades to feelings of worthlessness.
We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness under each or any of them.
Etymology
worthless + -ness
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).