no-frills
"no-frills" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“no-frills” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-no-frills · no-frills · English
no-frills · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | no-frills |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “no-frills” in English
Rare enough to double-check
no-frills is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for no-frills in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is no-frills, spelled N-O---F-R-I-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1Basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how no-frills appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He rented a no-frills apartment and cooked his own meals.
Another friend […] gathered a group to go to […] a no-frills comfort food restaurant, with a vast menu of classics sold at extraordinarily low prices: the only item in the 11-page menu over 1,000 forints was a bottle of sparkling wine, a reasonable 1,190 forints for 0.7 liters.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.