appalled
adjective, verb
appalled is spelled A-P-P-A-L-L-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is appaled: about 190 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Appalled is an adjective meaning “Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant”.
How many letters and syllables are in appalled?
| Letters | 8: A-P-P-A-L-L-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,209th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, appaled, about 190 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 appalled?
Appalled is spelled A-P-P-A-L-L-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for appalled 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 appalled?
Appalled appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th 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 appalled?
Appalled 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).
Forms of appalled
- more appalled comparative
- most appalled superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does appalled mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of appall
- 2
simple past and past participle of appal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Appalled in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense shocked, horrified by something unpleasant:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | consternado |
| Spanish | escandalizado, horrorizado, consternado, apabullado |
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.
Where does appalled come from?
From appall + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).