roguishness

Other forms of roguishness

plural

roguishnesses·

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 roguishness

What does roguishness mean?

roguishness means "the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roguishness?

roguishness has 4 syllables: ro-gu-ish-ness. The stress falls on "gu".

What is another word for roguishness?

Close synonyms include prankishness, rascality, mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness. 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 roguishness a common word?

roguishness 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.