pounced
/paʊnst/verb
pounced is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of pounce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-U-N-C-E-D and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does pounced mean?
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of pounce
adjective
- 1
obsoleteOrnamented with perforations or dots.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pounced?
- /paʊnst/
Pounced has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pounced?
Pounced appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).