bareheaded
adjective, adverb
bareheaded is an adjective meaning “Having no covering on the head” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-A-R-E-H-E-A-D-E-D, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does bareheaded mean?
adjective
- 1
Having no covering on the head.
adverb
- 1
With no covering on the head.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce bareheaded?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-bareheaded.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bareheaded
- bare-headed
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bareheaded?
Bareheaded appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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).
Bareheaded in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having no covering on the head:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | nu-tête |
| German | barhäuptig, barhaupt, bloßköpfig |
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 bareheaded come from?
From bare + headed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).