flawless
/ˈflɔː.ləs/
"flawless" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flawless” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,979. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,979
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without flaws, defects, or shortcomings; perfect.
Corpus desk
Index EN-flawless · flawless · English
flawless · rank #12,979 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,979
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flaw
Nearest frequency peer: flaw (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “flawless”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- fetus
fetus
87,024 corpus weight
- flaw
flaw
87,023 corpus weight
- flawless
flawless
87,022 corpus weight
- fooled
fooled
87,021 corpus weight
- Forrest
Forrest
87,020 corpus weight
- gigs
gigs
87,019 corpus weight
What this shows “flawless” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flawless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈflɔː.ləs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “flawless”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around flawless (IPA /ˈflɔː.ləs/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,979 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Without flaws, defects, or shortcomings; perfect.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for flawless, with forms such as "falwless", "fflawless", and "flalwess". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "flawlessly", "fearless", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From flaw + -less (suffix meaning ‘without (something)’). The correct English form is flawless, spelled F-L-A-W-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Without flaws, defects, or shortcomings; perfect.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flawless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The pianist’s performance this evening was flawless.
[W]hen I write of Sacred ſubjects, I had rather a Book of mine ſhould reſemble the Moon, which, though ſhe be but Small, leſs Elevated, and full of Imperfections, lends yet an Uſeful Light to Men, and produces here and there a Motion that obeys a Heavenly Influence; than a Star of the Firſt Magnitude, which though more High, more Vaſt, and more Flawleſs,…
Etymology
From flaw + -less (suffix meaning ‘without (something)’).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falwless
- fflawless
- flalwess
- flawelss
- flawles
- flawlless
- flawlses
- flawwless
- fllawless
- flwaless
- lfawless
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flawless - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).