thankless
"thankless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thankless” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,812. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,812
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - not appreciated or rewarded
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thankless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #46,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “thankless” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around thankless, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,812 among 27,828 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for thankless, with forms such as "htankless", "tahnkless", and "thaknless". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English thankles, equivalent to thank + -less. The correct English form is thankless, spelled T-H-A-N-K-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1not appreciated or rewarded
- 2ungrateful or unappreciative
Etymology
From Middle English thankles, equivalent to thank + -less.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htankless
- tahnkless
- thaknless
- thankelss
- thankkless
- thankles
- thanklless
- thanklses
- thanlkess
- thannkless
- thhankless
- thnakless
- tthankless
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thankless - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “thankless”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-H-A-N-K-L-E-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.