# boneless

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #39,219

## Definitions
1. Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
2. Without pizza crust; without pizza bones
3. Lacking strength, courage, or resolve.

## Etymology
From Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), from Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, equivalent to bone + -less. Cognate with Scots baneless (“boneless”), Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”), German beinlos (“legless”), Swedish benlös (“boneless”), Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”).

## Easily confused with
- **boundless** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boneless-vs-boundless)
- **baseless** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baseless-vs-boneless)

## Common misspellings (10)
`bboneless`, `bnoeless`, `boenless`, `boneelss`, `boneles`, `bonelless`, `bonelses`, `bonleess`, `bonneless`, `obneless`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/boneless