charred
adjective, verb
charred is an adjective meaning “burnt, carbonized” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-A-R-R-E-D and has one syllable, and it appears 1.2 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does charred mean?
adjective
- 1
burnt, carbonized
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of char
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce charred?
Charred 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).
Forms of charred
- more charred comparative
- most charred superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is charred?
Charred appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th 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).
Charred in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense burnt:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | carbonizado, calcinado |
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.