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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

weaponless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English

Syllables
weapon-less
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Lacking a weapon.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English wepenles, from Old English wǣpenlēas, from Proto-Germanic *wēpnalausaz, equivalent to weapon + -less. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woapenloos (“weaponless”), Dutch wapenloos (“weaponless”), German waffenlos (“weaponless”), Danish våbenløs (“weaponless”), Swedish vapenlös (“weaponless”), Icelandic vopnlaus (“weaponless”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Derived Forms

weaponlessness

Synonyms

unarmed

Questions

What does weaponless mean?
Lacking a weapon.
Where does weaponless come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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