keyless
"keyless" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“keyless” is uncommon English (frequency #62,254 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,254
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lacking or not requiring a key.
Corpus desk
Index EN-keyless · keyless · English
keyless · rank #62,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,254
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kieron
Nearest frequency peer: Kieron (+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 “keyless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kawai
Kawai
37,750 corpus weight
- keyless
keyless
37,747 corpus weight
- Kieron
Kieron
37,746 corpus weight
- Kilauea
Kilauea
37,745 corpus weight
- Kiley
Kiley
37,744 corpus weight
- kith
kith
37,743 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “keyless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keyless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “keyless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
keyless is uncommon English at frequency #62,254 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lacking or not requiring a key.".
Zero misspellings are on record for keyless in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From key + -less. The correct English form is keyless, spelled K-E-Y-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Lacking or not requiring a key.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how keyless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Today’s keyless models use a fob — the small remote control device that most modern cars use to lock and unlock doors — but it performs the additional duty of sending a signal to the ignition.
Etymology
From key + -less.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).