alerted
adjective, verb
alerted is an adjective meaning “Having been made alert; having been made attentive, alarmed or warned of something coming soon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-E-R-T-E-D and has 3 syllables, and it appears 2.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does alerted mean?
adjective
- 1
Having been made alert; having been made attentive, alarmed or warned of something coming soon.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of alert
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce alerted?
Alerted has 3 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 alerted
- more alerted comparative
- most alerted superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is alerted?
Alerted appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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).
Alerted in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | alertado |
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.