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coppered

adjective, verb

coppered is spelled C-O-P-P-E-R-E-D: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, coppered means “(of the hull of a wooden ship) sheathed below the waterline with thin sheets of copper to prevent the attack of teredo shipworms and limit the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in coppered?

Letters8: C-O-P-P-E-R-E-D
In writingabout once in every 52 million words; the 225,584th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is coppered?

Coppered appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).

Forms of coppered

  • more coppered comparative
  • most coppered superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does coppered mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    (of the hull of a wooden ship) sheathed below the waterline with thin sheets of copper to prevent the attack of teredo shipworms and limit the buildup of weed

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of copper (a form of copper)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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