craftiness

Other forms of craftiness

plural

craftinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about craftiness

What does craftiness mean?

craftiness means "shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in craftiness?

craftiness has 3 syllables: craf-ti-ness. The stress falls on "craf".

What is another word for craftiness?

Close synonyms include craft, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is craftiness a common word?

craftiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.