wingless
"wingless" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wingless” is uncommon English (frequency #70,406 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,406
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wingless · wingless · English
wingless · rank #70,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,406
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Witham
Nearest frequency peer: Witham (+2 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 “wingless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wheelwright
wheelwright
29,602 corpus weight
- wicking
wicking
29,599 corpus weight
- wif
wif
29,598 corpus weight
- wingless
wingless
29,595 corpus weight
- Witham
Witham
29,593 corpus weight
- Wotton
Wotton
29,590 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wingless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wingless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wingless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wingless is uncommon English at frequency #70,406 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for wingless, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From wing + -less. The correct English form is wingless, spelled W-I-N-G-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wingless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.
I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.
Etymology
From wing + -less.
This word in other languages
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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