ated
/ˈeɪtɪd/verb
ated is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of eat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-T-E-D, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ated mean?
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of eat
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ated?
- /ˈeɪtɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-ated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of ated
- more -ated comparative
- most -ated superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ated?
Ated appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).