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 and divides as of-ten-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.