remorseless
"remorseless" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“remorseless” is uncommon English (frequency #62,449 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,449
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without remorse, mercy or pity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-remorseless · remorseless · English
remorseless · rank #62,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,449
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reorder
Nearest frequency peer: reorder (+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 “remorseless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- redeployment
redeployment
37,556 corpus weight
- remorseless
remorseless
37,552 corpus weight
- reorder
reorder
37,551 corpus weight
- retransmiss…
retransmission
37,549 corpus weight
- Reuss
Reuss
37,548 corpus weight
- revocable
revocable
37,547 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “remorseless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remorseless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “remorseless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
remorseless is uncommon English at frequency #62,449 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for remorseless, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From remorse + -less. The correct English form is remorseless, spelled R-E-M-O-R-S-E-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Without remorse, mercy or pity.
- 2Unyielding or relentless.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how remorseless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.
Etymology
From remorse + -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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