erected
erect·ed/ɪˈɹɛktɪd/verb, adjective
erected is spelled E-R-E-C-T-E-D, 2 syllables: erect·ed. The wrong spelling people search most is erested: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Erected is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of erect”.
How many letters and syllables are in erected?
| Letters | 7: E-R-E-C-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: erect·ed |
| In writing | 7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, erested, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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 do you spell erected?
Erected is spelled E-R-E-C-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 20 of the searches for erected in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is erected?
Erected appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th 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 erected?
- /ɪˈɹɛktɪd/
Erected has 2 syllables, split erect·ed in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-erected.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of erected
- more erected comparative
- most erected superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does erected mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of erect
adjective
- 1
nonstandarderect
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).