Pattern word guide

How do you spell and pronounce seamless?

Seamless is spelled S-E-A-M-L-E-S-S and pronounced SEEM-luhs.

Spelling, sound, and meaning

The first syllable sounds like seem, and the second is an unstressed luhs. Seamless literally means having no visible seam. In pattern design, it describes a tile whose left and right edges, and top and bottom edges, meet continuously when repeated.

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