developed
/dɪˈvɛləpt/adjective, verb
developed is spelled D-E-V-E-L-O-P-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is developped: about 0 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), of all searches for the word. Developed is an adjective meaning “wealthy and industrialized; not third-world”.
How many letters and syllables are in developed?
| Letters | 9: D-E-V-E-L-O-P-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 89 times per million words; the 1,191st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, developped (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 developed?
Developed is spelled D-E-V-E-L-O-P-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are of the searches for developed 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 developed?
Developed appears 89 times per million words in written English, the 1,191st 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 developed?
- /dɪˈvɛləpt/
Developed has 3 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-developed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of developed
- more developed comparative
- most developed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does developed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
wealthy and industrialized; not third-world.
- 2
Mature.
- 3
Containing man-made structures such as roads, sewers, electric lines, buildings, and so on.
- 4
Having useful or necessary infrastructure.
- 5
Advanced, fully formed.
- 6
Processed and fixed; containing a visible negative (or positive for slide film) image
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of develop
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Developed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense (of a country) not primitive; not third world:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | développé |
| German | entwickelt |
| Portuguese | desenvolvido |
| Spanish | desarrollado |
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.