aimed
/eɪmd/adjective, verb
aimed is spelled A-I-M-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, aimed means “Directed towards a target” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in aimed?
| Letters | 5: A-I-M-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,667th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is aimed?
Aimed appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th 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 aimed?
- /eɪmd/
Aimed has one syllable (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-aimed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with aimed?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as aimed.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: media, amide.
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).
What does aimed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Directed towards a target.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of aim
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of AIM
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).