biased
/ˈbaɪəst/adjective, verb
biased is spelled B-I-A-S-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is buyest: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 154 of all searches for the word. Biased is an adjective meaning “Exhibiting bias; prejudiced”.
How many letters and syllables are in biased?
| Letters | 6: B-I-A-S-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, buyest, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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).
How do you spell biased?
Biased is spelled B-I-A-S-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 155 of the searches for biased 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.
How common is biased?
Biased appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th 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 biased?
- US /ˈbaɪəst/
Biased 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-biased.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of biased
- more biased comparative
- most biased superlative
- biassed UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does biased mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
- 2
Having outcomes with unequal probabilities; weighted.
a biased coin
- 3
Angled at a slant.
The table had a biased edge.
- 4
On which an electrical bias is applied.
- 5
Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of bias
She biased them against him for no apparent reason.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Biased in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | partial, qui n'est pas impartial, qui a du parti pris |
| German | parteiisch, voreingenommen, tendenziös, befangen , geneigt, gekippt |
| Portuguese | tendencioso , oblíquo, enviesado |
| Spanish | sesgado , en declive |
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 biased come from?
From bias + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).