copyrighted
adjective, verb
copyrighted is an adjective meaning “Covered by a copyright, not public domain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T-E-D and has 4 syllables, and it appears 1.5 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does copyrighted mean?
adjective
- 1
Covered by a copyright, not public domain.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of copyright
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce copyrighted?
- US
Copyrighted has 4 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-copyrighted.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is copyrighted?
Copyrighted appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,651st 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).
Copyrighted in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense covered by a copyright:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | urheberrechtlich geschützt |
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.