friendless
/ˈfrɛndləs/adjective
friendless is an adjective meaning “Without friends (without a friend)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-I-E-N-D-L-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does friendless mean?
adjective
- 1
Without friends (without a friend).
friendless homebody
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce friendless?
- /ˈfrɛndləs/
- /ˈfrɪndləs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-friendless.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is friendless?
Friendless appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd 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).
Friendless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense without friends:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | freundlos |
| Spanish | sin amigos |
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 friendless come from?
From Middle English frendles, from Old English frēondlēas. By surface analysis, friend + -less.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).