odourless
/ˈəʊdələs/
"odourless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“odourless” is uncommon English (frequency #99,646 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,646
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Having no odour.
| 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) |
Where “odourless” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
odourless is uncommon English at frequency #99,646 among 15,494 “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.
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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Using “odourless”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-D-O-U-R-L-E-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.