tactless
/ˈtæktləs/
"tactless" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tactless” is uncommon English (frequency #70,315 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,315
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - having no tact; unaware or intentionally inconsiderate of someone else's feelings
Corpus desk
Index EN-tactless · tactless · English
tactless · rank #70,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,315
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH taillight
Nearest frequency peer: taillight (+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 “tactless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- syncopated
syncopated
29,689 corpus weight
- syndicalism
syndicalism
29,688 corpus weight
- tactless
tactless
29,686 corpus weight
- taillight
taillight
29,685 corpus weight
- Takata
Takata
29,684 corpus weight
- taluk
taluk
29,683 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tactless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tactless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈtæktləs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tactless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tactless is uncommon English at frequency #70,315 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈtæktləs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "having no tact; unaware or intentionally inconsiderate of someone else's feelings".
tactless has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tact + -less. The correct English form is tactless, spelled T-A-C-T-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1having no tact; unaware or intentionally inconsiderate of someone else's feelings
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tactless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was tactless of you not to attend your sister's wedding.
Etymology
From tact + -less.
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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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