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landlordism

noun

landlordism is spelled L-A-N-D-L-O-R-D-I-S-M: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, landlordism means “An economic system under which a few private individuals (landlords) own property, and rent it to tenants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of landlordism is landlordisms.

How many letters and syllables are in landlordism?

Letters11: L-A-N-D-L-O-R-D-I-S-M
In writingabout once in every 50 million words; the 220,118th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is landlordism?

Landlordism appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).

Forms of landlordism

  • landlordisms plural

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

What does landlordism mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An economic system under which a few private individuals (landlords) own property, and rent it to tenants.

  2. 2

    A specific variation or implementation of such a system.

    […] including the racialized landlordisms to which it gives rise.

  3. 3

    The actions and behavior of a landlord.

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

Where does landlordism come from?

From landlord + -ism.

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

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