connected
con·nect·ed/kəˈnɛktɪd/adjective, verb
connected is spelled C-O-N-N-E-C-T-E-D, 3 syllables: con·nect·ed. The wrong spelling people search most is conected: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 53 of all searches for the word. Connected is an adjective meaning “Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity”.
How many letters and syllables are in connected?
| Letters | 9: C-O-N-N-E-C-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: con·nect·ed |
| In writing | 48 times per million words; the 2,113th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, conected, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell connected?
Connected is spelled C-O-N-N-E-C-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 53 of the searches for connected 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 connected?
Connected appears 48 times per million words in written English, the 2,113th 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 connected?
- /kəˈnɛktɪd/
Connected has 3 syllables, split con·nect·ed in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-connected.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of connected
- more connected comparative
- most connected superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does connected mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
- 2
Having relationships; involved with others.
- 3
CanadaUSInvolved with organized crime, specifically someone not (yet) working for a crime organization, but referred to as a "friend" by made guys/wise guys inside the organization.
- 4
Intimate; having bonds of affection.
- 5
That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.
- 6
Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices.
In a connected graph, there is no section (proper subset that includes all edges from each vertex in said subset) of the graph that is isolated from the rest.
- 7
Having or supporting connections, especially when through technology such as networking software or a transportation network.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of connect
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Connected in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | conectado , conexo |
| German | zusammenhängend |
| French | connexe |
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.
Where does connected come from?
From connect + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).