Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

seatless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English

Syllables: seat-less
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Lacking a seat.

Example Sentences

"August 17, 1890, George Bernard Shaw, letter to William Archer We were much disheartened when we arrived and found ourselves in the middle of a lamenting, seatless, lodgingless horde of English and American trippers […]"
"My companions rose one by one and emptied their nocturnal accumulations of urine into the seatless toilet."
"Three weeks ago today, Progressive Conservative MPP Laurie Scott announced that she was resigning her seat […] to make way for her seatless party leader, John Tory."

Etymology

Etymology tree English seat Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English seatless From seat + -less.

Derived Forms

seatlessness

Questions

What does seatless mean?: Lacking a seat.
Where does seatless come from?: Etymology tree English seat Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English seatless From seat + -less.

How to pronounce seatless

Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “seatless”.
Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling () so you know which sounds to aim for.
Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “seatless”.
Repeat and practice — Say “seatless” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.