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seedless

/ˈsiːdləs/adjective

seedless is an adjective meaning “Not having (noticeable) seeds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-E-D-L-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does seedless mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Not having (noticeable) seeds.

    What do you plant to grow seedless grapes? Actually, they have seeds, but they are quite edible by humans.

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

How do you pronounce seedless?

  • /ˈsiːdləs/

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

How common is seedless?

Seedless appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th 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).

Seedless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense not having seeds:

LanguageWords
Germankernlos

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 seedless come from?

From seed + -less.

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