amused
/əˈmjuːzd/adjective, verb
amused is spelled A-M-U-S-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is ammused: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Amused is an adjective meaning “Pleasurably entertained”.
How many letters and syllables are in amused?
| Letters | 6: A-M-U-S-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.4 times per million words; the 14,307th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ammused, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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 amused?
Amused is spelled A-M-U-S-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for amused 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 amused?
Amused appears 3.4 times per million words in written English, the 14,307th 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 amused?
- /əˈmjuːzd/
Amused has 2 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). Recordings: En-us-amused.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with amused?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as amused.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: medusa.
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 amused
- more amused comparative
- most amused superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amused mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Pleasurably entertained.
The children chased one another in a circle in front of their amused parents.
- 2
Displaying amusement.
There was an amused grin on his face.
- 3
Enjoying humorous aspects of something.
He was very amused to note the disarray of his opponents.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of amuse
While waiting for the bus, I amused myself by performing a mime interpretation of the Gettysburg Address.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does amused come from?
From amuse + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).