Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hairless

/ˈhɛɹləs/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.90 in modern English

Syllables: hair-less
IPA: /ˈhɛɹləs/

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Destitute of hair.

adj

noun

An animal of a hairless breed.

Example Sentences

"There has never been a bald James Bond nor a hairless contestant on Love Island. Growing up, bald men were never the superheroes and always the villains."
"Boston terriers and bulldogs, poodles and Pomeranians; there was even a pair of Mexican hairlesses, who looked like they'd had thirty rounds of chemotherapy."

Etymology

From hair + -less. Piecewise doublet of hair loss. Cognate with German haarlos.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hair

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈhɛɹləs/
British English: /ˈhɛələs/

Inflected Forms

hairlesses (plural)

Derived Forms

hairlessly hairlessness macrohairless

Phrases

Mexican hairless

Synonyms

glabrous

Rhymes With

careless airless stairless

Questions

How do you pronounce hairless?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhɛɹləs/.
What does hairless mean?: Destitute of hair.
Where does hairless come from?: From hair + -less. Piecewise doublet of hair loss. Cognate with German haarlos.

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