deathless
/ˈdɛθləs/
"deathless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“deathless” is uncommon English (frequency #73,111 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,111
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Undying or immortal.
Corpus desk
Index EN-deathless · deathless · English
deathless · rank #73,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,111
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH debilitated
Nearest frequency peer: debilitated (+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 “deathless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- damnedest
damnedest
26,896 corpus weight
- Dampier
Dampier
26,895 corpus weight
- Davin
Davin
26,892 corpus weight
- deathless
deathless
26,890 corpus weight
- debilitated
debilitated
26,889 corpus weight
- dentin
dentin
26,885 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “deathless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deathless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈdɛθləs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “deathless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
deathless is uncommon English at frequency #73,111 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈdɛθləs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for deathless, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From death + -less. The correct English form is deathless, spelled D-E-A-T-H-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Undying or immortal.
- 2Guaranteed not to be lost or forgotten due to its importance or conspicuous excellence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how deathless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Like the deathless vampire who must repeat its stalk-and-kill cycle in order to satisfy a recurring blood hunger, the earliest film horrors cannibalized its literary ancestry again and again.
“Hey, how do I kill this guy anyway?” “Finn, you can't kill my Dad!” “Oh, I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean --” “No, you literally can't kill my Dad. He's deathless.” “Oh.”
Etymology
From death + -less.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).