contested
adjective, verb
contested is an adjective meaning “Controversial; contentious; debated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-N-T-E-S-T-E-D and has 3 syllables, and it appears 5.9 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does contested mean?
adjective
- 1
Controversial; contentious; debated.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of contest
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce contested?
Contested 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 contested
- more contested comparative
- most contested superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is contested?
Contested appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th 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).
Contested in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense controversial:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | contendido |
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.