regardless
/ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/adverb, adjective, preposition
regardless is spelled R-E-G-A-R-D-L-E-S-S. The wrong spelling people search most is reguardless: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Regardless is an adverb meaning “Without attention to warnings or indications of bad consequences”.
How many letters and syllables are in regardless?
| Letters | 10: R-E-G-A-R-D-L-E-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 30 times per million words; the 3,114th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, reguardless, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell regardless?
Regardless is spelled R-E-G-A-R-D-L-E-S-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for regardless in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is regardless?
Regardless appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,114th 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 regardless?
- US /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/
- UK /ɹɪˈɡɑːd.lɪs/
Regardless has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-regardless.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with regardless
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with regardless?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as regardless from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹdlɪs/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of regardless
- more regardless comparative
- most regardless superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does regardless mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Without attention to warnings or indications of bad consequences.
Tatiana knew the meat had passed its expiry date, but she ate it regardless.
- 2
Anyway; irrespective of what has just been said.
The proposal may become law, or it may not. Regardless, we will adopt it as a club rule.
adjective
- 1
Paying no attention to; ignoring.
- 2
Taking insufficient regard of; heedless; careless.
preposition
- 1
proscribedSynonym of regardless of; paying no attention to.
Tatiana ate the cauliflower regardless its colour.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Regardless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | malgré tout, malgré cela, en dépit de cela, quand même |
| German | trotzdem, dennoch , rücksichtslos |
| Spanish | pese a todo/ello, a pesar de todo/ello, sin importar(le) nada, sin importarle (nada) |
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 regardless come from?
From regard + -less.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).