cultivated

cul·ti·vat·ed/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/adjective, verb

cultivated is spelled C-U-L-T-I-V-A-T-E-D: 10 letters and 4 syllables (cul·ti·vat·ed). It appears 4.0 times per million words in written English, the 12,940th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, cultivated means “Of a person, cultured, refined, educated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in cultivated?

Letters	10: C-U-L-T-I-V-A-T-E-D
Syllables	4: cul·ti·vat·ed
In writing	4.0 times per million words; the 12,940th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none 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 cultivated?

Cultivated appears 4.0 times per million words in written English, the 12,940th most frequent word form in the list.

cultivated0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce cultivated?

/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/

Cultivated has 4 syllables, split cul·ti·vat·ed in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-cultivated.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of cultivated

more cultivated comparative
most cultivated superlative

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

What does cultivated mean?

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

adjective

1
Of a person, cultured, refined, educated.
2
Of a plant, grown by cultivation (not wild).
3
Of land, farmed.

verb

1
simple past and past participle of cultivate (a form of cultivate)