bowled
/bəʊld/adjective, verb
bowled is spelled B-O-W-L-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, bowled means “Having a bowl or bowl-shaped element” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in bowled?
| Letters | 6: B-O-W-L-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,516th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is bowled?
Bowled appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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 bowled?
- UK /bəʊld/
- UK [bɒʊɫd]
- /bɒld/
Bowled 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: En-us-bold.ogg, En-au-bowled.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with bowled
Sounds like: bold (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with bowled?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bowled from its last stressed vowel (/əʊld/, British pronunciation):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does bowled mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having a bowl or bowl-shaped element.
- 2
(Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of bowl
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).