gloriless
"gloriless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gloriless” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without glory; unglorious
Corpus desk
Index EN-gloriless · gloriless · English
gloriless · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gloriless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gloriless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gloriless is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Without glory; unglorious".
gloriless doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 glory + -less. The correct English form is gloriless, spelled G-L-O-R-I-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Without glory; unglorious
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gloriless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beside the record of His life, the history of Cyrus, the annals of Cæsar, appear mean — gloriless.
That is precisely where so many of us are-trapped in our own cisterns, stuck in a gloryless life and a gloryless church.
Etymology
From glory + -less.
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.