absorbed
/æbˈsɔɹbd/adjective, verb
absorbed is spelled A-B-S-O-R-B-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is asorbed: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 38 of all searches for the word. Absorbed is an adjective meaning “Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed”.
How many letters and syllables are in absorbed?
| Letters | 8: A-B-S-O-R-B-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.3 times per million words; the 8,036th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, asorbed, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 absorbed?
Absorbed is spelled A-B-S-O-R-B-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 38 of the searches for absorbed 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 absorbed?
Absorbed appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th 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 absorbed?
- US /æbˈsɔɹbd/
- US /æbˈzɔɹbd/
- US /əbˈsɔɹbd/
Absorbed has 2 syllables (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-absorbed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of absorbed
- more absorbed comparative
- most absorbed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does absorbed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.
fully absorbed
- 2
That has been taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:absorbed.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of absorb
For quotations using this term, see Citations:absorbed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Absorbed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | absorbé, captivé |
| German | vertieft |
| Portuguese | absorvido, absorto |
| Spanish | absorto, ensimismado , absorbido |
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 absorbed come from?
From absorb + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).