freecycle
verb, noun
freecycle is a verb meaning “To recycle by giving away an item for free” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-E-C-Y-C-L-E, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does freecycle mean?
verb
- 1
To recycle by giving away an item for free.
I freecycled most of the junk cluttering my house.
noun
- 1
A group (especially an online messaging group) that engages in freecycling.
What freecycle did you join?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of freecycle
- freecycles present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- freecycling participle, present
- freecycled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is freecycle?
Freecycle appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).
Where does freecycle come from?
Blend of free + recycle, popularized by The Freecycle Network and the general freecycling movement.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).