odourless
/ˈəʊdələs/
"odourless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“odourless” is uncommon English (frequency #99,646 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,646
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having no odour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-odourless · odourless · English
odourless · rank #99,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,646
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH odorous
Nearest frequency peer: odorous (-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 “odourless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- novelette
novelette
364 corpus weight
- nuchal
nuchal
362 corpus weight
- O'Riordan
O'Riordan
359 corpus weight
- odorous
odorous
356 corpus weight
- odourless
odourless
355 corpus weight
- olfaction
olfaction
347 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “odourless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | odourless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈəʊdələs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “odourless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
odourless is uncommon English at frequency #99,646 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈəʊdələs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having no odour.".
Zero misspellings are on record for odourless in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From odour + -less. The correct English form is odourless, spelled O-D-O-U-R-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Having no odour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how odourless 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, odourless gas.
Smiling, young, muscular, paunchless, probably odourless, he went.
Etymology
From odour + -less.
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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