appreciated
adjective, verb
appreciated is spelled A-P-P-R-E-C-I-A-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is appriciated: about 240 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Appreciated is an adjective meaning “Recognized as having value”.
How do you spell appreciated?
Appreciated is spelled A-P-P-R-E-C-I-A-T-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for appreciated 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.
What does appreciated mean?
adjective
- 1
Recognized as having value.
- 2
Having risen in value.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of appreciate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce appreciated?
- US
Appreciated has 5 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-appreciated.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of appreciated
- more appreciated comparative
- most appreciated superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is appreciated?
Appreciated appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th 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).
Appreciated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense recognized as having value:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | apprécié |
| German | geschätzt |
| Portuguese | apreciado, valorizado |
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.