intestacy

1. 1.

   the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will

   Broadersituation

Other forms of intestacy

plural

intestacies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about intestacy

What does intestacy mean?

intestacy means "the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will".

How many syllables are in intestacy?

intestacy has 4 syllables: in-te-sta-cy. The stress falls on "te".

Is intestacy a common word?

intestacy 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.