abandoned
a·ban·doned/əˈbæn.dənd/adjective, verb
abandoned is spelled A-B-A-N-D-O-N-E-D, 3 syllables: a·ban·doned. The wrong spelling people search most is abondoned: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 76 of all searches for the word. Abandoned is an adjective meaning “Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked”.
How many letters and syllables are in abandoned?
| Letters | 9: A-B-A-N-D-O-N-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: a·ban·doned |
| In writing | 25 times per million words; the 3,612th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, abondoned, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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).
How do you spell abandoned?
Abandoned is spelled A-B-A-N-D-O-N-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 48 of the searches for abandoned 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.
How common is abandoned?
Abandoned appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th 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).
How do you pronounce abandoned?
- US /əˈbæn.dənd/
- /əˈbeə̯n.dənd/
- /əˈbɛə̯n.dənd/
Abandoned has 3 syllables, split a·ban·doned in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-abandoned.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of abandoned
- more abandoned comparative
- most abandoned superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does abandoned mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
- 2
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
abandoned building
- 3
Free from constraint; uninhibited.
- 4
No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of abandon
For quotations using this term, see Citations:abandoned.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Abandoned in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dévergondé , abandonné |
| Spanish | desenfrenado, desinhibido , abandonado |
| German | verlassen, herrenlos |
| Portuguese | abandonado |
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.
Where does abandoned come from?
From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).