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raced

adjective, verb

raced is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to or marked in terms of race” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-C-E-D and has one syllable, and it appears 3.9 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does raced mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Pertaining to or marked in terms of race.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of race (a form of race)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce raced?

  • US

Raced 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). Recordings: En-us-raced.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is raced?

Raced appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th 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).