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endless

end·less/ˈɛndlɪs/adjective

endless is spelled E-N-D-L-E-S-S: 7 letters and 2 syllables (end·less). It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, endless means “Having no end” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in endless?

Letters7: E-N-D-L-E-S-S
Syllables2: end·less
In writing15 times per million words; the 5,309th 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 endless?

Endless appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th 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 endless?

  • /ˈɛndlɪs/
  • /ˈɛndləs/

Endless has 2 syllables, split end·less in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-endless.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does endless mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Having no end.

    endless time; endless praise

  2. 2

    Extending indefinitely.

    an endless line

  3. 3

    Too much or many to be exhausted; an extremely high number or amount of; immeasurable, innumerable.

  4. 4

    obsoleteWithout profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.

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

Endless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchinfini, interminable, perpétuel (having no end)
Germanendlos, unbegrenzt (having no end), unbeschränkt, unendlich (indefinite)
Portugueseinfinito, infindável, incessante, infindo (having no end)
Spanishsin fin (having no end)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does endless come from?

From Middle English endeles, from Old English endelēas (“endless”), from Proto-Germanic *andijalausaz (“endless”), equivalent to end + -less.

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

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