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acclimated

UK /ˈæk.lɪm.eɪt.əd/adjective, verb

acclimated is spelled A-C-C-L-I-M-A-T-E-D: 10 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, acclimated means “Accustomed, adapted, or hardened to some environment or circumstance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in acclimated?

Letters10: A-C-C-L-I-M-A-T-E-D
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 54,808th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is acclimated?

Acclimated appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th 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 acclimated?

  • UK /ˈæk.lɪm.eɪt.əd/

Acclimated has 4 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-acclimated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of acclimated

  • more acclimated comparative
  • most acclimated superlative

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

What does acclimated mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Accustomed, adapted, or hardened to some environment or circumstance.

verb

  1. 1

    USsimple past and past participle of acclimate (a form of acclimate)

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

Acclimated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense accustomed, adapted or hardened to some environment:

LanguageWords
Portugueseaclimado, aclimatado

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.

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