featherless
feath·er·less/ˈfɛðəɹləs/adjective
featherless is an adjective meaning “Having no feathers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-A-T-H-E-R-L-E-S-S and has 3 syllables (feath·er·less), and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does featherless mean?
adjective
- 1
Having no feathers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce featherless?
- UK /ˈfɛðələs/
- US /ˈfɛðəɹləs/
Featherless has 3 syllables, split feath·er·less in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is featherless?
Featherless appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).
Featherless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having no feathers:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | federlos |
| Spanish | implume |
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 featherless come from?
From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather + -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).