feetless

adj

"feetless" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“feetless” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
8
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without feet.

Corpus desk

Index EN-feetless · feetless · English

feetless · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for feetless
PropertyValue
Headwordfeetless
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “feetless” in English

feetlesssits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

feetless is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Without feet.".

feetless has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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 feet + -less. Compare Old English fēþelēas. The correct English form is feetless, spelled F-E-E-T-L-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Without feet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how feetless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. feetless birds
  2. feetless stockings

Etymology

From feet + -less. Compare Old English fēþelēas.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feetless"?
"feetless" is spelled F-E-E-T-L-E-S-S.
What does "feetless" mean?
As an adjective, "feetless" means: Without feet.
What is the origin of the word "feetless"?
From feet + -less. Compare Old English fēþelēas. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list