acquitted
ac·quit·ted/əˈkwɪtɪd/adjective, verb
acquitted is spelled A-C-Q-U-I-T-T-E-D, 3 syllables: ac·quit·ted. The wrong spelling people search most is aquitted: about 250 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Acquitted is an adjective meaning “Having been acquitted; having gone through a trial that resulted in something other than a guilty verdict”.
How many letters and syllables are in acquitted?
| Letters | 9: A-C-Q-U-I-T-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ac·quit·ted |
| In writing | 2.8 times per million words; the 16,228th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, aquitted, about 250 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 acquitted?
Acquitted is spelled A-C-Q-U-I-T-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for acquitted 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 acquitted?
Acquitted appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,228th 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 acquitted?
- /əˈkwɪtɪd/
Acquitted has 3 syllables, split ac·quit·ted in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-acquitted.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does acquitted mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having been acquitted; having gone through a trial that resulted in something other than a guilty verdict.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of acquit
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).