acquainted
ac·quaint·ed/əˈkweɪntɪd/adjective, verb
acquainted is spelled A-C-Q-U-A-I-N-T-E-D, 3 syllables: ac·quaint·ed. The wrong spelling people search most is aquainted: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Acquainted is an adjective meaning “Personally known; familiar”.
How many letters and syllables are in acquainted?
| Letters | 10: A-C-Q-U-A-I-N-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ac·quaint·ed |
| In writing | 3.2 times per million words; the 14,731st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, aquainted, about 180 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 acquainted?
Acquainted is spelled A-C-Q-U-A-I-N-T-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for acquainted 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 acquainted?
Acquainted appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,731st 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 acquainted?
- US /əˈkweɪntɪd/
- Australia /əˈkwæɪntəd/
Acquainted has 3 syllables, split ac·quaint·ed in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-acquainted.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of acquainted
- more acquainted comparative
- most acquainted superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does acquainted mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Personally known; familiar.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of acquaint
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Acquainted in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense familiar:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | bekannt |
| Portuguese | conhecido |
| Spanish | conocido, familiarizado, al tanto, al corriente, al día |
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.