nameless
adjective
nameless is spelled N-A-M-E-L-E-S-S: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, nameless means “Not having a name” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in nameless?
| Letters | 8: N-A-M-E-L-E-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,835th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 nameless?
Nameless appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th 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 nameless?
- US
Nameless 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: En-us-nameless.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with nameless?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as nameless.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: lameness, maleness.
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 nameless
- the nameless
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nameless mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not having a name.
Environmental DNA analysis suggests that the number of species of bacteria that remain nameless to date may well be on the order of many thousands.
- 2
Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured.
The culprits shall remain nameless here, as some names have been changed to protect the guilty; just don't let it happen again.
- 3
Unable to be described or expressed.
a nameless unease
- 4
datedIllegitimate.
- 5
Not well-known; not having made a name for oneself.
noun
- 1
obsoleteVulva.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nameless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having no name:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sans nom, innomé |
| German | namenlos |
| Portuguese | sem nome |
| Spanish | innominado, sin nombre |
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 nameless come from?
From Middle English nameles, equivalent to name + -less. Cognate with Dutch naamloos (“nameless”), German namenlos (“nameless”), Danish navnløs (“nameless”), Swedish namnlös (“nameless”), Icelandic nafnlaus (“nameless, anonymous”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).