addressed
/əˈdɹɛst/adjective, verb
addressed is spelled A-D-D-R-E-S-S-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is adressed: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Addressed is an adjective meaning “Of a document, marked with an address”.
How many letters and syllables are in addressed?
| Letters | 9: A-D-D-R-E-S-S-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, adressed, about 210 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 addressed?
Addressed is spelled A-D-D-R-E-S-S-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for addressed 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 addressed?
Addressed appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,589th 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 addressed?
- /əˈdɹɛst/
Addressed 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).
Forms of addressed
- more addressed comparative
- most addressed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does addressed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of a document, marked with an address.
a stamped addressed envelope.
- 2
Having been the audience for an address, speech or presentation.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of address
For quotations using this term, see Citations:addressed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).