guiltless
/ˈɡɪltləs/
"guiltless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guiltless” is uncommon English (frequency #94,918 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,918
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Free from guilt; innocent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guiltless · guiltless · English
guiltless · rank #94,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,918
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH guro
Nearest frequency peer: guro (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “guiltless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- grossness
grossness
5,089 corpus weight
- guesstimate
guesstimate
5,086 corpus weight
- guiltless
guiltless
5,083 corpus weight
- guro
guro
5,082 corpus weight
- gymkhana
gymkhana
5,080 corpus weight
- haloperidol
haloperidol
5,077 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “guiltless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guiltless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɡɪltləs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “guiltless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
guiltless is uncommon English at frequency #94,918 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈɡɪltləs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for guiltless, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English giltles, gultles, gyltles, from Old English *gyltlēas, equivalent to guilt + -less. Compare Old English sċyldlēas (“guiltless”). The correct English form is guiltless, spelled G-U-I-L-T-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Free from guilt; innocent.
- 2Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with).
- 3Not encumbered with; free from.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guiltless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Their spears, wommeras, and boomerangs are guiltless of ornamentation, and save in a very few instances no idea of art seems to belong to the race.
Etymology
From Middle English giltles, gultles, gyltles, from Old English *gyltlēas, equivalent to guilt + -less. Compare Old English sċyldlēas (“guiltless”).
This word in other languages
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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