# fruitless

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈfɹuːtləs/ · frequency rank #27,469

## Definitions
1. Bearing no fruit; barren.
2. Unproductive, useless.
3. Of a person: unable to have children; barren, infertile.
4. Of a diet, etc.: without fruit.

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English fruytles; equivalent to fruit + -less. Compare Middle English withouten fruyt (“fruitless”, literally “without fruit”).

## Easily confused with
- **faultless** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faultless-vs-fruitless)

## Common misspellings (12)
`ffruitless`, `friutless`, `frruitless`, `fruiltess`, `fruitelss`, `fruitles`, `fruitlless`, `fruitlses`, `fruittless`, `frutiless`, `furitless`, `rfuitless`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/fruitless