strapless
"strapless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“strapless” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,909. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,909
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without a strap or straps; usually describing women's clothing without shoulder straps.
Corpus desk
Index EN-strapless · strapless · English
strapless · rank #40,909 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,909
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stormwater
Nearest frequency peer: stormwater (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “strapless”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Stetson
Stetson
59,095 corpus weight
- stigmatized
stigmatized
59,094 corpus weight
- stormwater
stormwater
59,093 corpus weight
- strapless
strapless
59,092 corpus weight
- stupor
stupor
59,091 corpus weight
- subcontract…
subcontractor
59,090 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “strapless” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strapless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “strapless” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around strapless, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,909 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Without a strap or straps; usually describing women's clothing without shoulder straps.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for strapless, with forms such as "srtapless", "sstrapless", and "starpless". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From strap + -less. The noun sense is by analogy of strap-on. The correct English form is strapless, spelled S-T-R-A-P-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Without a strap or straps; usually describing women's clothing without shoulder straps.
Etymology
From strap + -less. The noun sense is by analogy of strap-on.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtapless
- sstrapless
- starpless
- stralpess
- strapelss
- straples
- straplless
- straplses
- strappless
- strpaless
- strrapless
- sttrapless
- tsrapless
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of strapless - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
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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.