Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

queenless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English

Syllables: queen-less
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Without a queen.

Example Sentences

"Kramnik is perhaps the greatest exponent of heavyweight queenless middlegames in the history of chess."
"We have yet to identify every factor involved, but one variable is whether the nest contains a queen ant (queenright) or is queenless."

Etymology

From queen + -less.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: queen

Antonyms

queenright

Questions

What does queenless mean?: Without a queen.
Where does queenless come from?: From queen + -less.

How to pronounce queenless

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