guilelessness
/ˈɡaɪl.lɪs.nɪs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They'd say he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite."
- "You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre. And by blending it with the common YA trope of a young female protagonist who leads the world into a new revolutionary era, they almost get there—largely thanks to newcomer Nanua, who presents her character’s grappling with complex themes of identity and original sin with a childlike guilelessness."
Etymology
Etymology tree English guileless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English guilelessness From guileless + -ness.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡaɪl.lɪs.nɪs/