buried
/ˈbɛ.ɹid/adjective, verb
buried is spelled B-U-R-I-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is burried: about 480 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Buried is an adjective meaning “Placed in a grave at a burial”.
How many letters and syllables are in buried?
| Letters | 6: B-U-R-I-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 25 times per million words; the 3,612th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, burried, about 480 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 buried?
Buried is spelled B-U-R-I-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for buried 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 buried?
Buried appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th 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 buried?
- /ˈbɛ.ɹid/
Buried 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-buried.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of buried
- more buried comparative
- most buried superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does buried mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Placed in a grave at a burial.
- 2
Concealed, hidden.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of bury
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate buried?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of buried: bur..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Buried in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 buried come from?
From bur(y) + -ied.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).