fee-tail

1. 1.

   limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs

   Synonymsentail

   Broaderbequeath

Questions about fee-tail

What does fee-tail mean?

fee-tail means "limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs".

How many syllables are in fee-tail?

fee-tail has 2 syllables: fee--tail. The stress falls on "tail".

What is another word for fee-tail?

Close synonyms include entail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fee-tail a common word?

fee-tail is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.