mischievousness

Other forms of mischievousness

plural

mischievousnesses·

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 mischievousness

What does mischievousness mean?

mischievousness means "an attribute of mischievous children". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mischievousness?

mischievousness has 4 syllables: mi-schie-vou-sness. The stress falls on "schie".

What is another word for mischievousness?

Close synonyms include naughtiness, badness, impishness, puckishness, whimsicality. 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 mischievousness a common word?

mischievousness 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.