Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

authorless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: au-thor-less
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Without an author.

adj

Without a known author.

Example Sentences

"An authorless national author tour “doesn’t seem to me to have been done before,” said Constance Sayre, a principal in the Manhattan publishing consulting firm Market Partners International."

Etymology

From author + -less.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: author

Derived Forms

authorlessness

Questions

What does authorless mean?: Without an author.
Where does authorless come from?: From author + -less.

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