continued
/kənˈtɪn.jud/adjective, verb
continued is spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is contined: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 70 of all searches for the word. Continued is an adjective meaning “Prolonged; unstopped”.
How many letters and syllables are in continued?
| Letters | 9: C-O-N-T-I-N-U-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 91 times per million words; the 1,167th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, contined, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell continued?
Continued is spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 70 of the searches for continued 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 continued?
Continued appears 91 times per million words in written English, the 1,167th 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 continued?
- UK /kənˈtɪn.juːd/
- US /kənˈtɪn.jud/
Continued 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). Recordings: En-us-continued.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with continued?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as continued (/ɪnjud/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: unnoticed.
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 continued
- cont'd
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does continued mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
datedProlonged; unstopped.
- 2
Uninterrupted.
- 3
Resumed after a division or pause.
This article is continued on page 57.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of continue
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate continued?
Wiktionary records 5 abbreviations of continued: cont, cont'd, contd, contd., ctd..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Continued in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense uninterrupted:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | continu |
| German | fortgesetzt, kontinuierlich, anhaltend, fortgeführt, weitergeführt, unausgesetzt |
| Portuguese | contínuo |
| Spanish | continuo, continuado |
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.