Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hockeyless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hock-ey-less
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

without hockey.

Example Sentences

"Halfway through last year, hockeyless, I lost it. Hell, the season on ice."
"Indeed, when the National Hockey League locked out its players in the fall of 2004, plunging Canadians into a bleak hockeyless winter, the newspapers screamed: “Hockey lockout slashes GDP, economic growth put on ice.”"
"With many recent professional lockouts to help us, the dire warnings do open up just enough of a crack for our imaginations to slip through and conjure an altogether hockeyless Canada."

Etymology

From hockey + -less.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hockey

Questions

What does hockeyless mean?: without hockey.
Where does hockeyless come from?: From hockey + -less.

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