oftenness

Other forms of oftenness

plural

oftennesses·

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 oftenness

What does oftenness mean?

oftenness means "the number of occurrences within a given time period".

How many syllables are in oftenness?

oftenness has 3 syllables: of-ten-ness. The stress falls on "of".

What is another word for oftenness?

Close synonyms include frequency, frequence. 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 oftenness a common word?

oftenness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.