victimless
"victimless" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“victimless” is uncommon English (frequency #68,739 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,739
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without a victim.
Corpus desk
Index EN-victimless · victimless · English
victimless · rank #68,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,739
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH venerate
Nearest frequency peer: venerate (-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 “victimless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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vasculature
31,266 corpus weight
- vegetal
vegetal
31,265 corpus weight
- veld
veld
31,264 corpus weight
- venerate
venerate
31,263 corpus weight
- victimless
victimless
31,262 corpus weight
- viol
viol
31,260 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “victimless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | victimless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “victimless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
victimless is uncommon English at frequency #68,739 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Without a victim.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for victimless, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From victim + -less. The correct English form is victimless, spelled V-I-C-T-I-M-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Without a victim.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how victimless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He said that prostitution, drug trafficking, and gambling were victimless crimes.
They have got fairly liberal laws on victimless crimes, but the Los Angeles police are still busy entrapping homosexualists because the police chief in Los Angeles is very antifag.
Etymology
From victim + -less.
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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