unleashed
adjective, verb
unleashed is an adjective meaning “Not leashed; without a leash on it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-L-E-A-S-H-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears 3.0 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does unleashed mean?
adjective
- 1
Not leashed; without a leash on it.
- 2
Freed from any restraint, physical or otherwise.
unleashed potential
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of unleash
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce unleashed?
Unleashed 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)-Vealhurl-unleashed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is unleashed?
Unleashed appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,613th 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).
Unleashed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense not leashed:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | déchaîné, libéré |
| German | frei, freilaufend |
| Portuguese | solto |
| Spanish | sin traílla |
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.