doomed
/duːmd/adjective, verb
doomed is spelled D-O-O-M-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, doomed means “Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in doomed?
| Letters | 6: D-O-O-M-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.9 times per million words; the 10,028th 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 doomed?
Doomed appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th 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 doomed?
- /duːmd/
Doomed has one syllable (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-doomed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of doomed
- more doomed comparative
- most doomed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does doomed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
- 2
archaicAssured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of doom
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Doomed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | condamné |
| German | verurteilt, verloren |
| Portuguese | condenado |
| Spanish | malhadado, malfadado, desdichado |
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.