wetness
/ˈwɛt.nəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The young man looked long and fixedly on the place, the sight of which interested him so much that he had forgotten, in the eagerness of youthful curiosity, the wetness of his dress."
- "The first business was to make a fire, an operation which was a little delayed by the wetness of the fuel and the ground, owing to the heavy showers of the afternoon."
- "The industrial brewers continue to prosper, but now they are facing a new challenge from local brewers across the country who are dedicated to turning out brews that have only one thing in common with industrial beer—wetness."
- "“Oh! if I had my gravity,” thought she, contemplating the water, “I would flash off this balcony like a long white sea-bird, headlong into the darling wetness. Heigh-ho!”"
- "And so nature was not interfered with in the middle of the rainy season. Sometimes it poured down in such thick sheets of water that earth and sky seemed merged in one grey wetness."
- "Willis was too embarrassed to ask for a napkin. He let the wetness stay."
Etymology
From Middle English wetnes, wetnesse, from Old English wǣtnes (“moisture, wetness”). By surface analysis, wet + -ness.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wetnes, wǣtnes
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɛt.nəs/
- British English: /ˈwɛt.nəs/