altered
al·tered/ˈɔl.tɚd/noun, adjective, verb
altered is spelled A-L-T-E-R-E-D, 2 syllables: al·tered. The wrong spelling people search most is alterred: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 65 of all searches for the word. Altered is a noun meaning “A kind of car in drag racing, usually with a partial body situated behind the exposed engine”. The plural of altered is altereds.
How many letters and syllables are in altered?
| Letters | 7: A-L-T-E-R-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: al·tered |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, alterred, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell altered?
Altered is spelled A-L-T-E-R-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 65 of the searches for altered 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 altered?
Altered appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th 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 altered?
- UK /ˈɔːl.təd/
- US /ˈɔl.tɚd/
- /ˈɑl.tɚd/
Altered has 2 syllables, split al·tered in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-altered.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with altered?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as altered (/ɔltəɹd/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: related, alerted, treadle.
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 altered
- altereds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does altered mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A kind of car in drag racing, usually with a partial body situated behind the exposed engine.
adjective
- 1
Having been changed from an original form.
- 2
Neutered; having had testicles or uterus and ovaries removed to prevent procreation.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of alter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Altered in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having been changed:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | altéré |
| German | abgeändert |
| Spanish | alterado |
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.