announced
adjective, verb
announced is spelled A-N-N-O-U-N-C-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is annouced: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Announced is an adjective meaning “Having been preceded by an announcement; declared”.
How many letters and syllables are in announced?
| Letters | 9: A-N-N-O-U-N-C-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 91 times per million words; the 1,167th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, annouced, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell announced?
Announced is spelled A-N-N-O-U-N-C-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
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 announced?
Announced appears 91 times per million words in written English, the 1,167th 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 announced?
- General-American
Announced 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-announced.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of announced
- more announced comparative
- most announced superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does announced mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having been preceded by an announcement; declared.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of announce
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does announced come from?
From announce + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).