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spotless

/spɑtlɪs/adjective

spotless is spelled S-P-O-T-L-E-S-S: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, spotless means “Exceptionally clean” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in spotless?

Letters8: S-P-O-T-L-E-S-S
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is spotless?

Spotless appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th 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 spotless?

  • US /spɑtlɪs/

Spotless 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-spotless.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of spotless

  • more spotless comparative
  • most spotless superlative

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

What does spotless mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Exceptionally clean.

    spotless shirt

  2. 2

    Impeccable and free from blemish.

    spotless nature

  3. 3

    Lacking spots; unspotted.

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

Spotless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishimpecable (exceptionally clean), sin manchas ((zoology) lacking spots; unspotted)
Germanmakellos (impeccable and free from blemish)

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 spotless come from?

From Middle English spotles, equivalent to spot + -less.

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

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