Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wingless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.26 in modern English

Syllables: wing-less
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.

Example Sentences

"Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs."
"I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood."

Etymology

Etymology tree English wing 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 wingless From wing + -less.

Derived Forms

winglessly winglessness

Frequently Paired Words

featherless flightless brachypterous subapterous

Synonyms

apterous unwinged

Antonyms

winged

Questions

What does wingless mean?: Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.
Where does wingless come from?: Etymology tree English wing 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 wingless From wing + -less.

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