eyeless
"eyeless" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eyeless” is uncommon English (frequency #91,481 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,481
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having no eyes (organs of sight).
Corpus desk
Index EN-eyeless · eyeless · English
eyeless · rank #91,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,481
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH extinguishment
Nearest frequency peer: extinguishment (-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 “eyeless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- essentialist
essentialist
8,524 corpus weight
- evisceration
evisceration
8,523 corpus weight
- extinguishm…
extinguishment
8,521 corpus weight
- eyeless
eyeless
8,520 corpus weight
- faired
faired
8,515 corpus weight
- faller
faller
8,514 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “eyeless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eyeless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “eyeless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
eyeless is uncommon English at frequency #91,481 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for eyeless, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English eyles, eieles, equivalent to eye + -less. Compare West Frisian eachleas (“eyeless”), Dutch oogloos (“eyeless”), German augenlos (“eyeless”), Swedish ögalös (“eyeless”), Icelandic augnalaus (“eyeless”). The correct English form is eyeless, spelled E-Y-E-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Having no eyes (organs of sight).
- 2Having no sight; blind.
- 3Having no eye: having no hole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eyeless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Huge eyeless crabs roam the ocean floor around hydrothermal vents.
I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise. I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw; but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.
Etymology
From Middle English eyles, eieles, equivalent to eye + -less. Compare West Frisian eachleas (“eyeless”), Dutch oogloos (“eyeless”), German augenlos (“eyeless”), Swedish ögalös (“eyeless”), Icelandic augnalaus (“eyeless”).
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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