odorless
/ˈəʊdələs/
"odorless" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“odorless” is uncommon English (frequency #54,364 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,364
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having no odor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-odorless · odorless · English
odorless · rank #54,364 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,364
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH oppositional
Nearest frequency peer: oppositional (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “odorless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nonprolifer…
nonproliferation
45,641 corpus weight
- NSE
NSE
45,640 corpus weight
- nyssa
nyssa
45,639 corpus weight
- odorless
odorless
45,637 corpus weight
- oppositional
oppositional
45,636 corpus weight
- ordain
ordain
45,634 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “odorless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | odorless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈəʊdələs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “odorless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
odorless is uncommon English at frequency #54,364 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈəʊdələs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having no odor.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for odorless in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From odor + -less. The correct English form is odorless, spelled O-D-O-R-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Having no odor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how odorless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odorless gas.
The garlion is a cross between the garlic and onion; the topeppo combines the tomato and the pepper. We have the odorless onion, the odorless cabbage, the lemon cucumber that grows on a vine but looks like a lemon, and a giant cucumber
Etymology
From odor + -less.
This word in other languages
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).