sinless
/ˈsɪnləs/
"sinless" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sinless” is uncommon English (frequency #70,259 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,259
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without sin; never having sinned.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sinless · sinless · English
sinless · rank #70,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,259
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH singalong
Nearest frequency peer: singalong (-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 “sinless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Shireen
Shireen
29,748 corpus weight
- singalong
singalong
29,743 corpus weight
- sinless
sinless
29,742 corpus weight
- slapper
slapper
29,741 corpus weight
- slowpoke
slowpoke
29,739 corpus weight
- snowballed
snowballed
29,735 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sinless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “sinless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sinless is uncommon English at frequency #70,259 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈsɪnləs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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