freehold
adjective, noun, verb
freehold is an adjective meaning “Of a tenure or estate in land, held in fee simple absolute in possession by a proprietor; granted out of the allodial title, liable to determine only…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-E-H-O-L-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does freehold mean?
adjective
- 1
Of a tenure or estate in land, held in fee simple absolute in possession by a proprietor; granted out of the allodial title, liable to determine only on escheat.
noun
- 1
Freehold tenure.
- 2
Real property held by a tenure of this type.
verb
- 1
To dispense property in this way.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce freehold?
- US
Freehold has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-freehold.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of freehold
- freeholds plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- freeholding participle, present
- freeholded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is freehold?
Freehold appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th 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).