compromised
adjective, verb
compromised is spelled C-O-M-P-R-O-M-I-S-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is compromized: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 40 of all searches for the word. Compromised is an adjective meaning “That has been exposed to danger, risk, or discredit”.
How many letters and syllables are in compromised?
| Letters | 11: C-O-M-P-R-O-M-I-S-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, compromized, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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 compromised?
Compromised is spelled C-O-M-P-R-O-M-I-S-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 40 of the searches for compromised 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 compromised?
Compromised appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 compromised?
Compromised 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).
What does compromised mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
That has been exposed to danger, risk, or discredit.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of compromise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does compromised come from?
From compromise + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).