ness

Other forms of ness

plural

nesses·

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 ness

What does ness mean?

ness means "a strip of land projecting into a body of water".

How many syllables are in ness?

ness has 1 syllable: ness. In IPA it is /ˈnɛs/.

What is another word for ness?

Close synonyms include cape. 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 ness a common word?

ness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ness?

7 words rhyme with ness. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.