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wireless

wire·less/ˈwaɪ(jə)ɹ.ləs/adjective, noun

wireless is spelled W-I-R-E-L-E-S-S: 8 letters and 2 syllables (wire·less). It appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,121st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, wireless means “Not having any wires” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in wireless?

Letters8: W-I-R-E-L-E-S-S
Syllables2: wire·less
In writing16 times per million words; the 5,121st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is wireless?

Wireless appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,121st 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).

How do you pronounce wireless?

  • UK /ˈwaɪə.ləs/
  • US /ˈwaɪ(jə)ɹ.ləs/

Wireless has 2 syllables, split wire·less in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-wireless.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of wireless

  • wirelesses present, singular, he/she/it
  • wirelessing participle, present
  • wirelessed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does wireless mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Not having any wires.

  2. 2

    Functioning without an external wired connection.

    wireless headphones

noun

  1. 1

    The medium of radio communication.

    Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.

  2. 2

    A wireless connectivity to a computer network.

    If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

  3. 3

    UKdatedA radio set.

    Let's switch on the wireless and listen to the news.

verb

  1. 1

    datedobsoleteTo send (a message) by wireless or radio.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Wireless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsans fil (not having any wires), radio, TSF (radio)
Germandrahtlos (not having any wires), Funk, Rundfunk, Radio (radio), Funk-, Radio- (of or relating to wireless telegraphy)
Portuguesesem fio (not having any wires), tecnologia sem fio, tecnologia wireless (radio), wireless (wireless connectivity to a computer network)
Spanishinalámbrico (not having any wires)

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 wireless come from?

From wire + -less.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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