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collisionless

/kəˈlɪʒ.ən.ləs/adjective

collisionless is spelled C-O-L-L-I-S-I-O-N-L-E-S-S: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, collisionless means “That does not involve a collision between particles, bodies, plasmas or waves” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in collisionless?

Letters13: C-O-L-L-I-S-I-O-N-L-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is collisionless?

Collisionless appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce collisionless?

  • /kəˈlɪʒ.ən.ləs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-collisionless.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does collisionless mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    That does not involve a collision between particles, bodies, plasmas or waves.

  2. 2

    Without the possibility of data packets colliding on the network.

    A token ring network is collisionless, but an Ethernet network is not.

  3. 3

    Without the possibility of items having the same value, which would prevent reliable lookup.

    a collisionless hash

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does collisionless come from?

From collision + -less.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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