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warrantless

UK /ˈwɒɹəntləs/adjective

warrantless is spelled W-A-R-R-A-N-T-L-E-S-S: 11 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, warrantless means “Of a search, arrest, etc. executed without a warrant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in warrantless?

Letters11: W-A-R-R-A-N-T-L-E-S-S
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 51,129th 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 warrantless?

Warrantless appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th 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 warrantless?

  • UK /ˈwɒɹəntləs/

Warrantless 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).

What does warrantless mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Of a search, arrest, etc. executed without a warrant.

  2. 2

    rareSynonym of unwarranted.

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

Where does warrantless come from?

From warrant + -less.

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

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