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mindless

/maɪnd.ləs/adjective

mindless is spelled M-I-N-D-L-E-S-S: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, mindless means “Showing a lack of forethought or sense” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in mindless?

Letters8: M-I-N-D-L-E-S-S
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is mindless?

Mindless appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th 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).

How do you pronounce mindless?

  • /maɪnd.ləs/

Mindless has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-mindless.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with mindless?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as mindless.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: mildness.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of mindless

  • more mindless comparative
  • most mindless superlative

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

What does mindless mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Showing a lack of forethought or sense.

  2. 2

    Having no sensible meaning or purpose.

    An act of mindless violence.

  3. 3

    Heedless.

    Near-synonyms: unmindful, absent-minded, thoughtless

  4. 4

    Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.

    Near-synonyms: automatic, rote, dull

  5. 5

    Lacking a mind.

    Near-synonyms: brainless, unconscious, unsentient

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

Mindless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchécervelé (showing a lack of forethought or sense), irraisonné, gratuit (having no sensible meaning or purpose), irréfléchi (heedless), aliénant, abrutissant ((of a thing done) overly repetitive and…)
Germanhirnlos (showing a lack of forethought or sense)
Spanishinsensato (showing a lack of forethought or sense)

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 mindless come from?

From Middle English myndles, myndelees, myndeles, mendlees, from Old English myndlēas, ġemyndlēas (“foolish, senseless”), equivalent to mind + -less.

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

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