allowed
al·lowed/əˈlaʊd/adjective, verb
allowed is spelled A-L-L-O-W-E-D, 2 syllables: al·lowed. The wrong spelling people search most is alowed: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Allowed is an adjective meaning “Permitted, authorized”.
How many letters and syllables are in allowed?
| Letters | 7: A-L-L-O-W-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: al·lowed |
| In writing | 107 times per million words; the 996th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, alowed, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like |
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 allowed?
Allowed is spelled A-L-L-O-W-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 20 of the searches for allowed 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 allowed?
Allowed appears 107 times per million words in written English, the 996th 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 allowed?
- /əˈlaʊd/
Allowed has 2 syllables, split al·lowed in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-allowed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with allowed
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: aloud (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of allowed
- more allowed comparative
- most allowed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does allowed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Permitted, authorized.
Can she come? -She'll be allowed to go later.
- 2
archaicAllotted.
- 3
archaicAcknowledged; admitted to be true.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of allow
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Allowed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense permitted, authorized:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | permis |
| German | erlaubt |
| Portuguese | autorizado |
| Spanish | permitido |
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.