bespectacled
/bɪˈspɛktəkəld/adjective
bespectacled is an adjective meaning “Wearing spectacles (glasses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-S-P-E-C-T-A-C-L-E-D and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does bespectacled mean?
adjective
- 1
Wearing spectacles (glasses).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce bespectacled?
- /bɪˈspɛktəkəld/
Bespectacled has 4 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-bespectacled.ogg, En-au-bespectacled.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bespectacled
- more bespectacled comparative
- most bespectacled superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bespectacled?
Bespectacled appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th 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).
Bespectacled in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense wearing spectacles (glasses):
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | à lunettes, binoclard, bésiclard |
| German | eine Brille tragend, bebrillt, brilletragend |
| Portuguese | com óculos, de óculos |
| Spanish | con gafas, que lleva gafas, gafudo, gafotas, anteojudo |
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.
Where does bespectacled come from?
From be- + spectacle + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).