chastened

/ˈtʃeɪsənd/adjective, verb

chastened is spelled C-H-A-S-T-E-N-E-D: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, chastened means “Made chaste; purified; modest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in chastened?

Letters	9: C-H-A-S-T-E-N-E-D
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	about once in every 5 million words; the 69,055th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is chastened?

Chastened appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th most frequent word form in the list.

chastened0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce chastened?

/ˈtʃeɪsənd/

Chastened 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)-Vealhurl-chastened.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of chastened

more chastened comparative
most chastened superlative
chasten'd

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does chastened mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

1
Made chaste; purified; modest.
2
Made moderate; restrained.
3
Chastised.

verb

1
simple past and past participle of chasten (a form of chasten)