tireless
"tireless" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tireless” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,678
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indefatigable, untiring and not yielding to fatigue
Corpus desk
Index EN-tireless · tireless · English
tireless · rank #27,678 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,678
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tenacious
Nearest frequency peer: tenacious (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “tireless”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tarmac
tarmac
72,326 corpus weight
- teh
teh
72,325 corpus weight
- tenacious
tenacious
72,324 corpus weight
- tireless
tireless
72,323 corpus weight
- toothed
toothed
72,322 corpus weight
- Toshiba
Toshiba
72,321 corpus weight
What this shows “tireless” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tireless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tireless”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tireless, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,678 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Indefatigable, untiring and not yielding to fatigue".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tireless, with forms such as "itreless", "tierless", and "tireelss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tirelessly", "timeless", "tiredness", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tire (“to become sleepy or weary”) + -less The correct English form is tireless, spelled T-I-R-E-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Indefatigable, untiring and not yielding to fatigue
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tireless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
James Milner's angled free-kick was headed on to the post by the tireless Bent and Lampard the opportunist was perfectly placed to stoop and head in from virtually on the goal-line.
Etymology
From tire (“to become sleepy or weary”) + -less
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itreless
- tierless
- tireelss
- tireles
- tirelless
- tirelses
- tirleess
- tirreless
- trieless
- ttireless
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tireless - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).