chased
/t͡ʃeɪst/adjective, verb
chased is spelled C-H-A-S-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, chased means “Pursued” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in chased?
| Letters | 6: C-H-A-S-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.5 times per million words; the 10,519th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
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 chased?
Chased appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th 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 chased?
- /t͡ʃeɪst/
Chased 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chased.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with chased
Sounds like: chaste (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with chased?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as chased.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cashed.
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 chased mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Pursued.
- 2
Embossed or engraved.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of chase
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).