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neckless

/ˈnɛklɪs/adjective

neckless is spelled N-E-C-K-L-E-S-S: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, neckless means “Without a neck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in neckless?

Letters8: N-E-C-K-L-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is neckless?

Neckless appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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 neckless?

  • /ˈnɛklɪs/

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

Words people confuse with neckless

Sounds like: necklace (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What does neckless mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Without a neck.

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

Where does neckless come from?

From neck + -less.

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

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