entitled
en·tit·led/ɪnˈtaɪtl̩d/adjective, verb
entitled is spelled E-N-T-I-T-L-E-D: 8 letters and 3 syllables (en·tit·led). It appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,941st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “entitled vs titled” about 1,600 times a month (Google, United States). As an adjective, entitled means “Having a title” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in entitled?
| Letters | 8: E-N-T-I-T-L-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: en·tit·led |
| In writing | 32 times per million words; the 2,941st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search |
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); 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 common is entitled?
Entitled appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,941st 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 entitled?
- /ɪnˈtaɪtl̩d/
Entitled has 3 syllables, split en·tit·led in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-entitled.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with entitled
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of entitled
- more entitled comparative
- most entitled superlative
- 'titled
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does entitled mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having a title.
Her book is entitled 'My Autobiography'.
- 2
Having a legal or moral right or claim to something.
As a natural-born citizen I am entitled to run for president.
- 3
Convinced of one's own righteousness (self-righteousness) or the justifiability of one's actions or status, especially wrongly so; demanding and pretentious.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of entitle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Entitled in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | intitulé , ayant droit , présomptueux, prétentieux |
| German | betitelt, getitelt, benannt , berechtigt, anspruchsberechtigt, befugt |
| Portuguese | intitulado , beneficiário, beneficiária, beneficiário efetivo , condescendente, presunçoso |
| Spanish | intitulado , tener el fuero/derecho/privilegio a/de, derechohabiente , engreído, finchado, ufano |
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.