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unfenced

adjective, verb

unfenced is spelled U-N-F-E-N-C-E-D: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unfenced means “Not enclosed by a fence and thus free to roam over a wider area” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unfenced?

Letters8: U-N-F-E-N-C-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 121,279th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is unfenced?

Unfenced appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).

How do you pronounce unfenced?

    Unfenced 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).

    What does unfenced mean?

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

    adjective

    1. 1

      Not enclosed by a fence and thus free to roam over a wider area.

      Near-synonym: free-range

    2. 2

      Not enclosed by a fence and thus more easily approachable, visitable, encroachable, attackable, and so on.

    3. 3

      Without protection.

      She [Nature] has made the hinder part of the Head, more strong, as being otherwise unfenced against falls and other casualties.

    verb

    1. 1

      simple past and past participle of unfence (a form of unfence)

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

    Where does unfenced come from?

    From un- + fenced.

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

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