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coloured

UK /ˈkʌl.əd/adjective, noun, verb

coloured is spelled C-O-L-O-U-R-E-D: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, coloured means “British standard spelling of colored” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in coloured?

Letters8: C-O-L-O-U-R-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.3 times per million words; the 8,036th 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 coloured?

Coloured appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th 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 coloured?

  • UK /ˈkʌl.əd/

Coloured 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-coloured.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with coloured

Also written: colored.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of coloured

  • more coloured comparative
  • most coloured superlative
  • coloureds plural

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

What does coloured mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    British standard spelling of colored.

verb

  1. 1

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

adjective

as Coloured
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of coloured (“nonwhite, or mixed-race”).

noun

as Coloured
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of coloured (“nonwhite or mixed-race person; Black”).

noun

  1. 1

    UKAlternative form of colored.

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

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