legless
"legless" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“legless” is uncommon English (frequency #66,038 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,038
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without legs.
Corpus desk
Index EN-legless · legless · English
legless · rank #66,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,038
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Leadville
Nearest frequency peer: Leadville (-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 “legless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Latinx
Latinx
33,966 corpus weight
- LCM
LCM
33,965 corpus weight
- Leadville
Leadville
33,964 corpus weight
- legless
legless
33,963 corpus weight
- leman
leman
33,962 corpus weight
- LFL
LFL
33,960 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “legless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | legless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “legless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
legless is uncommon English at frequency #66,038 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for legless, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English legles, equivalent to leg + -less. The correct English form is legless, spelled L-E-G-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Without legs.
- 2Too drunk to stand.
- 3Going nowhere.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how legless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a legless invertebrate
Above the shield was the well-known Midland crest of a legless wyvern (a wyvern normally has two legs).
Etymology
From Middle English legles, equivalent to leg + -less.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).