youthfulness
"youthfulness" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“youthfulness” is uncommon English (frequency #74,676 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,676
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The vitality characteristic of youth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-youthfulness · youthfulness · English
youthfulness · rank #74,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,676
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH youself
Nearest frequency peer: youself (-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 “youthfulness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- xylem
xylem
25,330 corpus weight
- youself
youself
25,326 corpus weight
- youthfulness
youthfulness
25,325 corpus weight
- Zabel
Zabel
25,324 corpus weight
- Zhengzhou
Zhengzhou
25,322 corpus weight
- Zygmunt
Zygmunt
25,318 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “youthfulness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | youthfulness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #74,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “youthfulness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
youthfulness is uncommon English at frequency #74,676 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The vitality characteristic of youth.".
Zero misspellings are on record for youthfulness in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From youthful + -ness. The correct English form is youthfulness, spelled Y-O-U-T-H-F-U-L-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The vitality characteristic of youth.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how youthfulness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But it was not the sadness, nor indeed, strictly speaking, the infantileness of the face of Isabel which so singularly impressed him with the idea of her original and changeless youthfulness.
Etymology
From youthful + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).