suppleness

Other forms of suppleness

plural

supplenesses·

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 suppleness

What does suppleness mean?

suppleness means "the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suppleness?

suppleness has 3 syllables: sup-ple-ness. The stress falls on "sup".

What is another word for suppleness?

Close synonyms include lissomeness, litheness, pliancy, pliantness, pliability. 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 suppleness a common word?

suppleness 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.