destroyed
de·stroyed/dɪˈstɹɔɪd/adjective, verb
destroyed is spelled D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-D, 2 syllables: de·stroyed. The wrong spelling people search most is distroyed: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Destroyed is an adjective meaning “Damaged beyond repair; ruined; wrecked; obliterated”.
How many letters and syllables are in destroyed?
| Letters | 9: D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: de·stroyed |
| In writing | 41 times per million words; the 2,438th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, distroyed, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 destroyed?
Destroyed is spelled D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for destroyed 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 destroyed?
Destroyed appears 41 times per million words in written English, the 2,438th 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 destroyed?
- /dɪˈstɹɔɪd/
Destroyed has 2 syllables, split de·stroyed in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-destroyed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does destroyed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Damaged beyond repair; ruined; wrecked; obliterated.
- 2
Irelandinformal(particularly of a child) soiled, muddied, especially as a result of a fall or spill.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of destroy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).