thornless
adjective
thornless is an adjective meaning “Without thorns” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-O-R-N-L-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does thornless mean?
adjective
- 1
Without thorns.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thornless?
Thornless appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).
Thornless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense without thorns:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | dornenlos |
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 thornless come from?
From thorn + -less.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).