dyed
/daɪd/adjective, verb
dyed is spelled D-Y-E-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, dyed means “Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in dyed?
| Letters | 4: D-Y-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.7 times per million words; the 16,455th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is dyed?
Dyed appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th 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 dyed?
- /daɪd/
Dyed 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-dyed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dyed?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dyed.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: eddy.
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 dyed
- more dyed comparative
- most dyed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dyed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of dye
- 2
obsoleteObsolete spelling of died.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dyed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense colored with dye:
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.