meatless
/ˈmiːtləs/
"meatless" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meatless” is uncommon English (frequency #59,541 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,541
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without meat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-meatless · meatless · English
meatless · rank #59,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,541
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mealy
Nearest frequency peer: mealy (-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 “meatless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McCool
McCool
40,464 corpus weight
- McCullum
McCullum
40,463 corpus weight
- McNaughton
McNaughton
40,462 corpus weight
- mealy
mealy
40,461 corpus weight
- meatless
meatless
40,460 corpus weight
- Medellín
Medellín
40,458 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “meatless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meatless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmiːtləs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “meatless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
meatless is uncommon English at frequency #59,541 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈmiːtləs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Without meat.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for meatless, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (“foodless”), equivalent to meat + -less. The correct English form is meatless, spelled M-E-A-T-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Without meat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meatless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.
Are we to understand from paragraph 1 (c) that [the residents of Malta] are entirely meatless? or have they cattle they can kill, and if so how many?
Etymology
From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (“foodless”), equivalent to meat + -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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