soulless
/ˈsoʊl.ləs/adjective
soulless is spelled S-O-U-L-L-E-S-S. The wrong spelling people search most is souless: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Soulless is an adjective meaning “As if without a soul; insensitive, unfeeling”.
How many letters and syllables are in soulless?
| Letters | 8: S-O-U-L-L-E-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,636th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, souless, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Sounds like |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell soulless?
Soulless is spelled S-O-U-L-L-E-S-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for soulless in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is soulless?
Soulless appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th 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).
How do you pronounce soulless?
- UK /ˈsəʊl.ləs/
- US /ˈsoʊl.ləs/
- US [ˈsoʊɫ.ləs]
Soulless has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-soulless.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with soulless
Sounds like: soleless (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of soulless
- more soulless comparative
- most soulless superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does soulless mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
As if without a soul; insensitive, unfeeling.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Soulless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense as if without a soul:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | seelenlos, entseelt |
| Portuguese | desalmado |
| Spanish | desalmado, desangelado |
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 soulless come from?
From Middle English soulelez; equivalent to soul + -less. Compare Old English sāwollēas; the Middle English word likely is a re-formation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).