freeholder
noun
freeholder is a noun meaning “A person who holds tenure by freehold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-E-H-O-L-D-E-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of freeholder is freeholders.
What does freeholder mean?
noun
- 1
A person who holds tenure by freehold
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce freeholder?
Freeholder has 3 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).
Forms of freeholder
- freeholders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is freeholder?
Freeholder appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 73,203rd 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).
Freeholder in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | susmonster |
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 freeholder come from?
From Middle English free holder, freholdere, equivalent to freehold + -er. Compare Old Northern French fraunc tenaunt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).