committed
com·mit·ted/kəˈmɪtɪd/adjective, verb
committed is spelled C-O-M-M-I-T-T-E-D, 3 syllables: com·mit·ted. The wrong spelling people search most is commited: about 650 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Committed is an adjective meaning “Obligated or locked in (often by a pledge) to some course of action”.
How many letters and syllables are in committed?
| Letters | 9: C-O-M-M-I-T-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: com·mit·ted |
| In writing | 45 times per million words; the 2,253rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, commited, about 650 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 committed?
Committed is spelled C-O-M-M-I-T-T-E-D. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for committed 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 committed?
Committed appears 45 times per million words in written English, the 2,253rd 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 committed?
- UK /kəˈmɪtɪd/
- US /kəˈmɪtɪd/
- US [kəˈmɪɾ.ɪd]
Committed has 3 syllables, split com·mit·ted in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-committed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with committed?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as committed from its last stressed vowel (/ɪtɪd/):
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 committed
- more committed comparative
- most committed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does committed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Obligated or locked in (often by a pledge) to some course of action.
I'm committed to walk(ing) at least 7 miles daily.
- 2
Showing commitment.
- 3
Associated in an exclusive (but not necessarily permanent) sexual relationship.
- 4
Required by logic to endorse the conclusion of an argument.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of commit
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Committed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | comprometido , empeñado |
| German | engagiert |
| Portuguese | empenhado |
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.