wrongness
/ˈɹɒŋ.nəs/
"wrongness" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wrongness” is uncommon English (frequency #81,041 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,041
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of being wrong; error or fault.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wrongness · wrongness · English
wrongness · rank #81,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,041
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wos
Nearest frequency peer: wos (-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 “wrongness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Woden
Woden
18,967 corpus weight
- wole
wole
18,966 corpus weight
- wookie
wookie
18,963 corpus weight
- wos
wos
18,962 corpus weight
- wrongness
wrongness
18,960 corpus weight
- yandere
yandere
18,953 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wrongness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wrongness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɒŋ.nəs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wrongness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wrongness is uncommon English at frequency #81,041 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɹɒŋ.nəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for wrongness in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English wrongnesse, equivalent to wrong + -ness. The correct English form is wrongness, spelled W-R-O-N-G-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The quality of being wrong; error or fault.
- 2Wrong or reprehensible things or actions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wrongness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Often, on the plantation, he had seen the white men take drinks. But there was something somehow different in the manner of Borckman’s taking a drink. Jerry was aware, vaguely, that there was something surreptitious about it. What was wrong he did not know, yet he sensed the wrongness and watched suspiciously.
It’s not true that I’m always thinking of H. Work and conversation make that impossible. But the times when I’m not are perhaps my worst. For then, though I have forgotten the reason, there is spread over everything a vague sense of wrongness, of something amiss.
Etymology
From Middle English wrongnesse, equivalent to wrong + -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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