shapeless
"shapeless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shapeless” is uncommon English (frequency #60,458 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,458
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without a clearly defined or identifiable shape.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shapeless · shapeless · English
shapeless · rank #60,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,458
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shamanic
Nearest frequency peer: shamanic (-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 “shapeless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- serjeant
serjeant
39,547 corpus weight
- SFM
SFM
39,546 corpus weight
- shafted
shafted
39,545 corpus weight
- shamanic
shamanic
39,544 corpus weight
- shapeless
shapeless
39,543 corpus weight
- shelve
shelve
39,540 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shapeless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shapeless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shapeless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shapeless is uncommon English at frequency #60,458 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Without a clearly defined or identifiable shape.".
shapeless has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From shape + -less. The correct English form is shapeless, spelled S-H-A-P-E-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Without a clearly defined or identifiable shape.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shapeless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If you skip the prelude, which is at once rhythmically square and shapeless, this Lohengrin starts out decently enough, for Hans Helm is one of the okayest Heralds on disc (a modest compliment, to be sure).
Etymology
From shape + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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