ineptness

Other forms of ineptness

plural

ineptnesses·

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 ineptness

What does ineptness mean?

ineptness means "unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ineptness?

ineptness has 3 syllables: in-ept-ness. The stress falls on "ept". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈnɛptnɪs/.

What is another word for ineptness?

Close synonyms include awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness. 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 ineptness a common word?

ineptness 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.