dried
/dɹaɪd/adjective, verb
dried is spelled D-R-I-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, dried means “Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the process of drying” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in dried?
| Letters | 5: D-R-I-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,674th 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 dried?
Dried appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th 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 dried?
- /dɹaɪd/
- [dɹaɪd]
- [d͡ʒɹaɪd]
Dried 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-dried.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does dried mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the process of drying.
- 2
Usually of foods: cured, preserved by drying.
dried fish; dried fruit
- 3
Sold raw and unprocessed.
dried lentils
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of dry
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dried in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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.