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beaten

/ˈbiː.tən/adjective, verb

beaten is spelled B-E-A-T-E-N: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, beaten means “Defeated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in beaten?

Letters6: B-E-A-T-E-N
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing16 times per million words; the 5,025th 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 beaten?

Beaten appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th 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 beaten?

  • /ˈbiː.tən/
  • [ˈbiː.tn̩]
  • [ˈbiː.ʔn̩]

Beaten 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-beaten.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of beaten

  • more beaten comparative
  • most beaten superlative

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

What does beaten mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Defeated.

  2. 2

    Repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows.

    a beaten path; beaten gold; the beaten victims of the attack

  3. 3

    Mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement.

  4. 4

    datedTrite; hackneyed.

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of beat (a form of beat)

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

Where does beaten come from?

From beat + -en.

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

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