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hatless

/ˈhætləs/adjective

hatless is an adjective meaning “Not possessing, or not wearing, a hat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-T-L-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does hatless mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Not possessing, or not wearing, a hat.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce hatless?

  • US /ˈhætləs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-hatless.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is hatless?

Hatless appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).

Hatless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense not wearing a hat:

LanguageWords
Frenchtête nue
Germanhutlos, barhaupt

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 hatless come from?

From hat + -less.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).