Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

life estate

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.78 in modern English

Syllables: life es-tate
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An estate in land which is owned by a party only for the duration of the life of that party, and for which ownership will revert to another upon the death of that party.

Inflected Forms

life estates (plural)

Synonyms

estate for life life estate pur autre vie life tenant tenancy for life

Questions

What does life estate mean?: An estate in land which is owned by a party only for the duration of the life of that party, and for which ownership will revert to another upon the death of that party.

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