ownerless

1. 1.

   having no owner

   Synonymsunowned

Questions about ownerless

What does ownerless mean?

ownerless means "having no owner".

How many syllables are in ownerless?

ownerless has 3 syllables and divides as ow-ner-less 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.

What is another word for ownerless?

Close synonyms include unowned. 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 ownerless a common word?

ownerless 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.