derived
/dɪˈɹaɪvd/adjective, verb
derived is spelled D-E-R-I-V-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is dirived: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 83 of all searches for the word. Derived is an adjective meaning “Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier…”.
How many letters and syllables are in derived?
| Letters | 7: D-E-R-I-V-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 | 1; the most searched, dirived, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell derived?
Derived is spelled D-E-R-I-V-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 84 of the searches for derived 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 derived?
Derived 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 derived?
- UK /dɪˈɹaɪvd/
Derived 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-derived.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does derived mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.
- 2
archaicPossessing features believed to be more advanced or improved than those other organisms.
- 3
A product of derivation.
The French language is derived from Latin.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of derive
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does derived come from?
From derive + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).