circumcised
adjective, noun, verb
circumcised is spelled C-I-R-C-U-M-C-I-S-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is circumsised: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Circumcised is an adjective meaning “Of a man, having had the foreskin of the penis excised”.
How many letters and syllables are in circumcised?
| Letters | 11: C-I-R-C-U-M-C-I-S-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,236th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, circumsised, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people 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); 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).
How do you spell circumcised?
Circumcised is spelled C-I-R-C-U-M-C-I-S-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for circumcised 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 circumcised?
Circumcised appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,236th 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 circumcised?
Circumcised has 3 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-circumcised.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with circumcised
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of circumcised
- circumciseds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does circumcised mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of a man, having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
- 2
Of a woman, having had the clitoris, prepuce, or labia excised.
noun
- 1
A circumcised person.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of circumcise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Circumcised in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of a man:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | circoncis |
| German | beschnitten |
| Portuguese | circuncidado, circunciso |
| Spanish | circuncidado, circunciso |
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.