dated
/ˈdeɪtɪd/adjective, verb
dated is spelled D-A-T-E-D: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,365th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, dated means “Marked with a date” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in dated?
| Letters | 5: D-A-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 19 times per million words; the 4,365th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is dated?
Dated appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,365th 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 dated?
- /ˈdeɪtɪd/
Dated has 2 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-dated.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of dated
- more dated comparative
- most dated superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dated mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Marked with a date.
The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922.
- 2
Outdated.
"Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus.
- 3
Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.
Calling a happy person gay seems awfully dated nowadays; people will assume you mean something else.
- 4
No longer fashionable.
Slang can become dated very quickly.
- 5
obsoleteAlotted a span of days.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of date
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate dated?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of dated: DTD.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | daté , démodé, vieilli , anachronique |
| German | datiert , veraltet , anachronistisch, (wie) aus der Zeit gefallen , unmordern |
| Portuguese | datado , obsoleto , antiquado |
| Spanish | fechado , pasado de moda |
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.