accused
/əˈkjuzd/noun, adjective, verb
accused is spelled A-C-C-U-S-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is accussed: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Accused is a noun meaning “The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case”. The plural of accused is accuseds.
How many letters and syllables are in accused?
| Letters | 7: A-C-C-U-S-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 29 times per million words; the 3,218th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, accussed, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell accused?
Accused is spelled A-C-C-U-S-E-D. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for accused 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 accused?
Accused appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th 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 accused?
- US /əˈkjuzd/
- /əˈkjuzəd/
Accused 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-accused.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with accused?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as accused from its last stressed vowel (/uzd/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of accused
- accuseds plural
- more accused comparative
- most accused superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accused mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
adjective
- 1
Having been accused; being the target of accusations.
Naples had an almost stronger preference for the interposition of Spain, while the great republic of Venice in the eyes of Italy stood accused of aspiring to bring the whole peninsula under its sway, […]
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of accuse
For quotations using this term, see Citations:accused.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accused in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accusé, accusée |
| German | Angeklagter, Angeklagte, Beschuldigter, Beschuldigte , angeklagt |
| Portuguese | acusado |
| Spanish | acusado |
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.