Voiceless

Definitions: Voiceless

Voiceless

Adjective

1. (linguistics) of speech sounds.

2. Not using the voice; "unvoiced thoughts"; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'.

3. Uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers".

4. Being voiceless through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech.

Date "voiceless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Synonyms: Voiceless

Synonyms: aphonic (adj), breathed (adj), surd (adj), unvoiced (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: sonant (adj), voiced (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Aphony	Adjective: aphonous, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel; silent; (taciturn); muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.
Dejection	Melancholy; sadness; Adjective: il penseroso, melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrums; vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis, pessimism; la maladie sans maladie; despondency, slough of Despond; disconsolateness; Adjective: hope deferred, blank despondency; voiceless woe.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Voiceless

English words defined with "voiceless": aphonic, Aphonous ♦ lisp ♦ voiceless consonant, Voiceless stop. (references)

Specialty definitions using "voiceless": voiceless homing. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

The Voiceless Message (1911)

Voice of the Voiceless (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Classroom Calypso: Giving Voice to the Voiceless (Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.), V. 164.) (reference) No Longer Voiceless (reference) On a Voiceless Shore: Byron in Greece (reference) Two Plays: Voiceless People and Addororata (Drama Series (Montreal, Quebec), No. 2.) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Voiceless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Voiceless" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	82	36,594

Expressions using "voiceless": voiceless consonant ♦ voiceless homing ♦ voiceless stop ♦ voiceless woe. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "voiceless": pre-voiceless.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "voiceless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pa zë (mute, silent), memec (dumb, inarticulate, mute, speechless), i pazëshëm (soundless, surd), i pagojë (dumb, speechless). (various references)

Arabic		‏صامت (dumb, mum, mute, noiseless, quiet, silenced, silent, speechless, still, surd, tacit, tight lipped, unvoiced, whist, wordless), ‏أبكم (deaf mute, deafen, dumb, mute, speechless). (various references)

Bulgarian		ням (dumb, implicit, inarticulate, mute, silent, speechless, still), загубил гласа си, безгласен (mute), беззвучен (mute, noiseless, sharp, soundless, surd, toneless, unvoiced). (various references)

Czech		neznìlý (unvoiced), nìmý (blank, dumb, inarticulate, mute, speechless), mlèenlivý (decretive, silent, taciturn, uncommunicative), bezhlasý. (various references)

Danish		ikke-oralt pejlingssystem (voiceless homing). (various references)

Dutch		elektronische geleiding (voiceless homing). (various references)

Finnish		soinniton. (various references)

French		sourd, sans voix, aphone. (various references)

German		stimmlos (unvoiced), ohne stimme (unvoiced). (various references)

Greek		άφωνοσ (mum, mute, silent, speechless, unvoiced). (various references)

Hebrew		אלם (dumb, dumbness, dummy, hush, mute, muteness, silence, silent), חסין קול. (various references)

Hungarian		zöngétlen (unvoiced), hangtalan (silent, soundless, speechless, toneless). (various references)

Italian		sordo (deaf, deaf person, dull, hollow, impervious, partially hearing), muto (blank, dumb, mute, preserved must, silent, speechless, tongue tied, unvoiced). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無声 (noiseless, silent, unvoiced). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		むせい (asexual, nocturnal emission, noiseless, silent, unvoiced, wet dream). (various references)

Manx		neughooagh (ineffable), neughlaragh, gyn coraa. (various references)

Pig Latin		oicelessvay

Portuguese		sem voz (speechless), mudo (aphonic, dumb, dumbbell, mute, muted, soundless, speechless, toneless, unsounded, unvoiced, wordless), afono. (various references)

Romanian		tãcut (close-lipped, discreet, dumb, mousy, mum, quiet, reserved, silent, silently, still, sullen, tacit), mut (dumb, inarticulate, mute, mutely, sharp, silent, silently, speechless), fãrã voce, afon (aphonous). (various references)

Russian		безголосый. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nem (dumb, mute, silent, speechless, tongue tied), bezvučan (soundless, unvoiced), bezglasan. (various references)

Spanish		sin voz. (various references)

Swedish		tonlös (surd, toneless, unvoiced). (various references)

Turkish		sessiz (close-tongued, dumb, hushed, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, nonviolent, non-violent, quiescent, quiet, reserved, reticent, silent, soundless, speechless, still, surd, tacit, taciturn, tuneless, unvoiced, without a sound, wordless), oy kullanamayan, dilsiz (dumb, inarticulate, mute, speechless), düşüncesini söyleme hakkı olmayan. (various references)

Ukranian		німий (dumb, dummy, mute, speechless, walking, whist, wordless), безголосий. (various references)

Vietnamese		không nói được (speechless), không có tiếng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "voiceless": voicelessly, voicelessness, voicelessnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "voiceless" (pronounced voy"slus)
4	-s l u s	baseless, ceaseless, classless, defenseless, faceless, fenceless, graceless, priceless, purposeless, remorseless, senseless, sexless, useless.
3	-l u s	accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, childless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, prothallus, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, valueless, victimless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-o-s-s-v"
	-1 letter: clevises, solecise, vesicles, viceless.
	-2 letters: iceless, ossicle, vesicle, viscose.
	-3 letters: clevis, closes, cloves, colies, cosies, ecesis, levies, olives, selves, sieves, slices, socles, solves, veloce, vessel, voices, voiles.
	-4 letters: ceils, close, clove, coils, coles, coses, cosie, coves, elves, evils, isles, lieve, lives, loess, loses, loves, oleic, olive, seels, seise, sices, sieve, silos, slice, sloes, socle.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-o-s-s-v"
	+1 letter: solvencies.
	+2 letters: voicelessly.
	+3 letters: concessively, insolvencies, lovesickness, voicefulness.
	+4 letters: collectivises, compressively, equivocalness, voicelessness.
	+5 letters: compulsiveness, conclusiveness, convulsiveness, diverticuloses, lovesicknesses, overclassified, overclassifies, voicefulnesses.
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