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pathless

adjective

pathless is spelled P-A-T-H-L-E-S-S: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, pathless means “Without a path or trail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in pathless?

Letters8: P-A-T-H-L-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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 pathless?

Pathless appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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 pathless?

  • US

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

Forms of pathless

  • more pathless comparative
  • most pathless superlative

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

What does pathless mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Without a path or trail.

  2. 2

    Unexplored.

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

Pathless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense without a path:

LanguageWords
Germanpfadlos, unwegsam, weglos

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does pathless come from?

From path + -less.

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

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