stainless
adjective, noun
stainless is spelled S-T-A-I-N-L-E-S-S. The wrong spelling people search most is stainlees: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 250 of all searches for the word. Stainless is an adjective meaning “Describing an alloy that is resistant to corrosion and discoloration”.
How many letters and syllables are in stainless?
| Letters | 9: S-T-A-I-N-L-E-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, stainlees, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell stainless?
Stainless is spelled S-T-A-I-N-L-E-S-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 247 of the searches for stainless 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 stainless?
Stainless appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th 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 stainless?
Stainless 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)-Vealhurl-stainless.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with stainless?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as stainless.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: saltiness.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of stainless
- stainlesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stainless mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Describing an alloy that is resistant to corrosion and discoloration.
- 2
Unmarked, spotless.
- 3
Free from sin; morally pure.
noun
- 1
Ellipsis of stainless steel.
The conveyors are made entirely of stainless and the whole facility is designed for regular washdowns.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stainless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense describing an alloy that is resistant to corrosion and discoloration:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | inoxydable |
| German | rostfrei |
| Portuguese | inoxidável |
| Spanish | inoxidable |
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 stainless come from?
From stain + -less.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).