dreamless
"dreamless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dreamless” is uncommon English (frequency #96,956 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,956
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without dreams.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dreamless · dreamless · English
dreamless · rank #96,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,956
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drat
Nearest frequency peer: drat (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dreamless”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dormouse
dormouse
3,050 corpus weight
- draftee
draftee
3,047 corpus weight
- drat
drat
3,046 corpus weight
- dreamless
dreamless
3,045 corpus weight
- dropsy
dropsy
3,042 corpus weight
- dugong
dugong
3,041 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dreamless” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dreamless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dreamless” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dreamless is uncommon English at frequency #96,956 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Without dreams.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dreamless, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dream + -less. The correct English form is dreamless, spelled D-R-E-A-M-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Without dreams.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dreamless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She spent the night in a deep and dreamless sleep.
Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the under-lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
Etymology
From dream + -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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