beardless
"beardless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beardless” is an uncommon English word, ranked #87,061 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #87,061
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lacking a beard.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beardless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “beardless” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for beardless is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #87,061 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
beardless doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas… The correct English form is beardless, spelled B-E-A-R-D-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Lacking a beard.
- 2Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.
- 3Lacking an awn.
- 4Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).
Etymology
From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “beardless”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-E-A-R-D-L-E-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.