acknowledged
adjective, verb
acknowledged is spelled A-C-K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is acknowleged: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Acknowledged is an adjective meaning “Generally accepted, recognized or admitted”.
How many letters and syllables are in acknowledged?
| Letters | 12: A-C-K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,230th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, acknowleged, about 100 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 acknowledged?
Acknowledged is spelled A-C-K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for acknowledged 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 acknowledged?
Acknowledged appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th 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 acknowledged?
- US
Acknowledged has 3 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-acknowledged.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of acknowledged
- more acknowledged comparative
- most acknowledged superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does acknowledged mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Generally accepted, recognized or admitted.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of acknowledg
- 2
simple past and past participle of acknowledge
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Acknowledged in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense recognized:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | anerkannt |
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.