victimless

adj

"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

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “victimless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for victimless
PropertyValue
Headwordvictimless
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters10
Frequency rank#68,739
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “victimless” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).victimlessfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “venerate” (#68,738), “veld” (#68,737), “viol” (#68,741). Among 969 “V” headwords, “victimless” is #68,739. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Without a victim.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how victimless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. He said that prostitution, drug trafficking, and gambling were victimless crimes.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "victimless"?
"victimless" is spelled V-I-C-T-I-M-L-E-S-S.
What does "victimless" mean?
As an adjective, "victimless" means: Without a victim.
What is the origin of the word "victimless"?
From victim + -less. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "victimless", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list