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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
wretchedness is a noun meaning "a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
“the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable”
the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
“the wretchedness for which these prisons became known”
“the grey wretchedness of the rain”
the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
“he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wretchedness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.