sinless
/ˈsɪnləs/
"sinless" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sinless” is an uncommon English word, ranked #70,259 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #70,259
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Without sin; never having sinned.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sinless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsɪnləs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sinless” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for sinless is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɪnləs/. Corpus data places it at rank #70,259 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Without sin; never having sinned.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sinless in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English synneles, senneles, from Old English synlēas (“without sin; sinless”), equivalent to sin + -less. Compare Dutch zondeloos (“sinless”), German Low German sündelos, sündlos (“sinless”), German sündenlos (“sinless”), Icelandic syndlaus (“si… The correct English form is sinless, spelled S-I-N-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Without sin; never having sinned.
Etymology
From Middle English synneles, senneles, from Old English synlēas (“without sin; sinless”), equivalent to sin + -less. Compare Dutch zondeloos (“sinless”), German Low German sündelos, sündlos (“sinless”), German sündenlos (“sinless”), Icelandic syndlaus (“sinless”).
This word in other languages
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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Using “sinless”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-I-N-L-E-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈsɪnləs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.