raised
/ɹeɪzd/adjective, verb
raised is spelled R-A-I-S-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is rised: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Raised is an adjective meaning “Embossed, in relief”.
How do you spell raised?
Raised is spelled R-A-I-S-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for raised in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does raised mean?
adjective
- 1
Embossed, in relief.
- 2
Leavened, especially with yeast.
raised dough
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of raise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce raised?
- /ɹeɪzd/
Raised 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-raised.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is raised?
Raised appears 69 times per million words in written English, the 1,528th 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).
Raised in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | relievado, tridimensional, saledizo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.