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adorned

/əˈdɔɹnd/adjective, verb

adorned is spelled A-D-O-R-N-E-D: 7 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 17,813th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, adorned means “Having been decorated or embellished through applied items or alterations (adornments)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in adorned?

Letters7: A-D-O-R-N-E-D
Syllables1
In writing2.3 times per million words; the 17,813th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is adorned?

Adorned appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 17,813th 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 adorned?

  • US /əˈdɔɹnd/
  • UK /əˈdɔːnd/

Adorned has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-adorned.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with adorned?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as adorned from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹnd/):

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 adorned

  • more adorned comparative
  • most adorned superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does adorned mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been decorated or embellished through applied items or alterations (adornments).

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of adorn (a form of adorn)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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