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dissolved

dis·solved/dɪˈzɑlvd/adjective, verb

dissolved is spelled D-I-S-S-O-L-V-E-D: 9 letters and 2 syllables (dis·solved). It appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, dissolved means “that has been disintegrated in a solvent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in dissolved?

Letters9: D-I-S-S-O-L-V-E-D
Syllables2: dis·solved
In writing7.4 times per million words; the 8,669th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is dissolved?

Dissolved appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th 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 dissolved?

  • US /dɪˈzɑlvd/
  • UK /dɪˈzɒlvd/

Dissolved has 2 syllables, split dis·solved in writing.

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

What rhymes with dissolved?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dissolved from its last stressed vowel (/ɑlvd/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of dissolved

  • more dissolved comparative
  • most dissolved superlative

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

What does dissolved mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    that has been disintegrated in a solvent

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of dissolve (a form of dissolve)

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

Dissolved in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense that has been disintegrated in a solvent:

LanguageWords
Spanishdisuelto, soluto

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.

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