How do you pronounce speechless?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈspiːt͡ʃ.lɪs/.

Where does speechless come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

/ˈspiːt͡ʃ.lɪs/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English

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"When he walked into his surprise birthday party, he was completely speechless."
"The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless."
"Immortal Pleaſures round my ſwimming Eyes did dance, And ſpeechleſs Joys, in whoſe ſweet Tumult toſt, I thought my Breath, and my new Being loſt."
"O Mother Earth, O Sun that makest clean, What poison have I heard, what speechless sin !"

From Middle English specheles, from Old English sprǣċlēas (“speechless; without the power of speak”), from Proto-Germanic *sprēkalausaz, equivalent to speech + -less. Cognate with West Frisian sprakeleas (“speechless”), Dutch sprakeloos (“speechless”), German Low German spraaklos (“speechless”), German sprachlos (“speechless”).

speechlessly speechlessness

unspeakable dumb