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freestanding

adjective

freestanding is an adjective meaning “Standing or set apart” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-E-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does freestanding mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Standing or set apart.

    Near-synonyms: isolated, insulated, detached, individuated, separated

  2. 2

    Not attached to anything.

  3. 3

    Not supported by or on anything; independent.

    a freestanding hospital not associated with any university medical school

  4. 4

    Of a computer program: that runs directly on a computer's hardware, without being managed by an operating system.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce freestanding?

    Freestanding 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 freestanding

    • free-standing

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is freestanding?

    Freestanding appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,680th 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).

    Words people confuse with freestanding

    Also written: free-standing (one word or two).

    Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    Freestanding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense standing or set apart:

    LanguageWords
    Germanfreistehend
    Portugueseindependente
    Spanishindependiente

    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 freestanding come from?

    From free + standing.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).