unwieldiness

Other forms of unwieldiness

plural

unwieldinesses·

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 unwieldiness

What does unwieldiness mean?

unwieldiness means "the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unwieldiness?

unwieldiness has 4 syllables: un-wiel-di-ness. The stress falls on "wiel". In IPA it is /ənˈwildinəs/.

What is another word for unwieldiness?

Close synonyms include awkwardness, cumbersomeness. 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 unwieldiness a common word?

unwieldiness 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.