motionless
/ˈməʊʃənlɛs/
"motionless" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“motionless” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,144. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,144
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - At rest, stationary, immobile, not moving.
Corpus desk
Index EN-motionless · motionless · English
motionless · rank #30,144 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,144
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Moshe
Nearest frequency peer: Moshe (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “motionless”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Mongol
Mongol
69,860 corpus weight
- mortified
mortified
69,859 corpus weight
- Moshe
Moshe
69,858 corpus weight
- motionless
motionless
69,857 corpus weight
- MSN
MSN
69,855 corpus weight
- mullet
mullet
69,854 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “motionless” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motionless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈməʊʃənlɛs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “motionless” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around motionless (IPA /ˈməʊʃənlɛs/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,144 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "At rest, stationary, immobile, not moving.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for motionless, with forms such as "mmotionless", "moitonless", and "motinoless". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From motion + -less. The correct English form is motionless, spelled M-O-T-I-O-N-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1At rest, stationary, immobile, not moving.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how motionless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows for the most part feeding unconcernedly, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
Nothing could be more businesslike than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
Etymology
From motion + -less.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmotionless
- moitonless
- motinoless
- motiolness
- motionelss
- motionles
- motionlless
- motionlses
- motionnless
- motoinless
- mottionless
- mtoionless
- omtionless
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of motionless - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.