rankness

Other forms of rankness

plural

ranknesses·

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 rankness

What does rankness mean?

rankness means "the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rankness?

rankness has 2 syllables: rank-ness. The stress falls on "rank".

What is another word for rankness?

Close synonyms include richness, prolificacy, fertility, malodorousness, stinkiness. 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 rankness a common word?

rankness 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.