without prejudice
"without-prejudice" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“without prejudice” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a prep_phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see without, prejudice.
Corpus desk
Index EN-without-prejudice · without prejudice · English
without prejudice · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | without prejudice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Prep_phrase |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “without prejudice” in English
Rare enough to double-check
without prejudice is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aprep_phrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for without prejudice, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is without prejudice, spelled W-I-T-H-O-U-T- -P-R-E-J-U-D-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see without, prejudice.
- 2Not affecting nor considering other possibly related issues.
- 3Without affecting a legal interest.
- 4Without binding future decisions or requiring a certain position to be taken in the future; (law) used to allow a statement or proposal in communications, while allowing the party to return to their original position without being impeded by the described statement or proposal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how without prejudice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
without bias or prejudice
In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh th…
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.