heir-at-law

1. 1.

   the person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate

   Broaderheir

Questions about heir-at-law

What does heir-at-law mean?

heir-at-law means "the person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate".

How many syllables are in heir-at-law?

heir-at-law has 3 syllables and divides as hei-r-at--law under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is heir-at-law a common word?

heir-at-law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.