valveless
adjective
valveless is an adjective meaning “Having no valves” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-L-V-E-L-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does valveless mean?
adjective
- 1
Having no valves.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is valveless?
Valveless appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).
Valveless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having no valves:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | ventillos |
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 valveless come from?
From valve + -less.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).