brainless
"brainless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brainless” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #39,221 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #39,221
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Having no brain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brainless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brainless” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for brainless is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #39,221 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for brainless, with forms such as "barinless", "bbrainless", and "brailness". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English braynles; equivalent to brain + -less. The correct English form is brainless, spelled B-R-A-I-N-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Having no brain.
- 2Unintelligent, with little common sense.
- 3Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
Etymology
From Middle English braynles; equivalent to brain + -less.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: barinless,bbrainless,brailness,brainelss,brainles,brainlless,brainlses,brainnless,braniless,brianless,brrainless,rbainless
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brainless - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “brainless”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-R-A-I-N-L-E-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.