chagrined
/ʃəˈɡɹɪnd/adjective, verb
chagrined is spelled C-H-A-G-R-I-N-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is chagrinned: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Chagrined is an adjective meaning “Feeling chagrin (at something); vexed; fretful”.
How many letters and syllables are in chagrined?
| Letters | 9: C-H-A-G-R-I-N-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 11 million words; the 100,430th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, chagrinned, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell chagrined?
Chagrined is spelled C-H-A-G-R-I-N-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for chagrined 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 chagrined?
Chagrined appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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 chagrined?
- UK /ˈʃæɡɹɪnd/
- US /ʃəˈɡɹɪnd/
Chagrined 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-chagrined.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with chagrined?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as chagrined from its last stressed vowel (/ɪnd/):
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).
Forms of chagrined
- more chagrined comparative
- most chagrined superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does chagrined mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Feeling chagrin (at something); vexed; fretful.
She was chagrined to note that the paint had dried into a blotchy mess.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of chagrin
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).