barehanded
adjective, adverb
barehanded is an adjective meaning “With bare hands” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-A-R-E-H-A-N-D-E-D, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does barehanded mean?
adjective
- 1
With bare hands.
- 2
With no tool or weapon.
adverb
- 1
With no covering on the hands.
- 2
Without using a tool or weapon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of barehanded
- bare-handed
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is barehanded?
Barehanded appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Barehanded in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense without tool or weapon:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | à main nue, à mains nues |
| Portuguese | desarmado |
| Spanish | con las manos desnudas |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does barehanded come from?
From bare + handed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).