categorized
adjective, verb
categorized is spelled C-A-T-E-G-O-R-I-Z-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is catagorized: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Categorized is an adjective meaning “The characteristic of having been placed or sorted in a category or categories”.
How many letters and syllables are in categorized?
| Letters | 11: C-A-T-E-G-O-R-I-Z-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,336th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, catagorized, about 50 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 categorized?
Categorized is spelled C-A-T-E-G-O-R-I-Z-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for categorized 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 categorized?
Categorized appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th 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 categorized?
Categorized 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).
Forms of categorized
- more categorized comparative
- most categorized superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does categorized mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
The characteristic of having been placed or sorted in a category or categories.
All of my records are categorized.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of categorize
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).