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codified

adjective, verb

codified is spelled C-O-D-I-F-I-E-D: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, codified means “Organized; put in a systematic arrangement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in codified?

Letters8: C-O-D-I-F-I-E-D
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 30,017th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 codified?

Codified appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th 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 codified?

    Codified 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).

    Forms of codified

    • more codified comparative
    • most codified superlative

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

    What does codified mean?

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

    adjective

    1. 1

      Organized; put in a systematic arrangement.

      highly codified

    2. 2

      Officially enacted by a governing body.

    verb

    1. 1

      simple past and past participle of codify (a form of codify)

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

    Codified in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense Translations:

    LanguageWords
    Frenchcodifié

    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.

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