applied
/əˈplaɪd/adjective, verb
applied is spelled A-P-P-L-I-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is aplied: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 79 of all searches for the word. Applied is an adjective meaning “Put into practical use”.
How many letters and syllables are in applied?
| Letters | 7: A-P-P-L-I-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 47 times per million words; the 2,153rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, aplied, about 50 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 applied?
Applied is spelled A-P-P-L-I-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 67 of the searches for applied 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 applied?
Applied appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd 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 applied?
- /əˈplaɪd/
Applied 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-applied.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does applied mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Put into practical use.
- 2
Of a branch of science, serving another branch of science or engineering.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of apply
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate applied?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of applied: Appl..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Applied in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense put into practical use:
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.