misshapenness

Other forms of misshapenness

plural

misshapennesses·

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 misshapenness

What does misshapenness mean?

misshapenness means "an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed".

How many syllables are in misshapenness?

misshapenness has 4 syllables: mis-sha-pen-ness. The stress falls on "sha".

What is another word for misshapenness?

Close synonyms include deformity, malformation. 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 misshapenness a common word?

misshapenness 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.