cloudless
"cloudless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cloudless” is uncommon English (frequency #55,330 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,330
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without any clouds.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cloudless · cloudless · English
cloudless · rank #55,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,330
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cleaves
Nearest frequency peer: cleaves (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “cloudless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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44,672 corpus weight
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44,671 corpus weight
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44,668 corpus weight
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What this shows Long-tail view: where “cloudless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloudless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cloudless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cloudless is uncommon English at frequency #55,330 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Without any clouds.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cloudless, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cloudeles, equivalent to cloud + -less. The correct English form is cloudless, spelled C-L-O-U-D-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Without any clouds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cloudless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a cloudless day
a cloudless sky
Etymology
From Middle English cloudeles, equivalent to cloud + -less.
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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