chosen
/ˈt͡ʃoʊ.zən/adjective, verb
chosen is spelled C-H-O-S-E-N. The wrong spelling people search most is choosen: about 310 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Chosen is an adjective meaning “picked; selected”.
How many letters and syllables are in chosen?
| Letters | 6: C-H-O-S-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 41 times per million words; the 2,438th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, choosen, about 310 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 chosen?
Chosen is spelled C-H-O-S-E-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for chosen 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 chosen?
Chosen appears 41 times per million words in written English, the 2,438th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Chosen, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce chosen?
- UK /ˈt͡ʃəʊ.zən/
- US /ˈt͡ʃoʊ.zən/
Chosen 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: En-us-chosen.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Semperosculto-chosen.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with chosen?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as chosen from its last stressed vowel (/oʊzən/):
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 chosen
- more chosen comparative
- most chosen superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does chosen mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
picked; selected
The chosen candidate accepted the award with pride.
- 2
elected
verb
- 1
past participle of choose
- 2
past participle of chuse
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Chosen in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | gewählt, ausgewählt, ausgesucht, erwählt |
| Portuguese | escolhido , eleito |
| Spanish | escogido |
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.
Where does chosen come from?
From Middle English chosen, ychosen, ichosen, re-analysed variant of coren, icoren, ȝecoren (“chosen”), from Old English coren, ġecoren (“chosen”), past participle of Old English ċēosan (“to choose”). Morphologically equivalent to choose + -en (past participle ending).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).