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bathed

/beɪðd/adjective, verb

bathed is spelled B-A-T-H-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, bathed means “clean after having bathed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in bathed?

Letters6: B-A-T-H-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 24,463rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is bathed?

Bathed appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,463rd 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 bathed?

  • /beɪðd/

As a verb: /bæθt/, /bɑːθt/.

Bathed has one syllable (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bathed1.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bathed2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of bathed

  • more bathed comparative
  • most bathed superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does bathed mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    clean after having bathed

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of bathe (a form of bathe)

  2. 2

    simple past and past participle of bath (a form of bath)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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