shoeless
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He ran shoeless from the burning house."
- "The ground about was thick sown with caltrops, which very much incommoded the shoeless Moors."
Etymology
From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe + -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).