exhausted
/ɪɡˈzɔstɪd/adjective, verb
exhausted is spelled E-X-H-A-U-S-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is exausted: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 22 of all searches for the word. Exhausted is an adjective meaning “Very tired; zonked (out)”.
How many letters and syllables are in exhausted?
| Letters | 9: E-X-H-A-U-S-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,230th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, exausted, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 exhausted?
Exhausted is spelled E-X-H-A-U-S-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 22 of the searches for exhausted 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 exhausted?
Exhausted appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th 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 exhausted?
- UK /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪd/
- US /ɪɡˈzɔstɪd/
- /ɪɡˈzɑstɪd/
Exhausted has 3 syllables (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-exhausted.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-exhausted.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of exhausted
- more exhausted comparative
- most exhausted superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does exhausted mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Very tired; zonked (out).
The exhausted man fell asleep immediately.
- 2
Depleted of resources.
The exhausted mine was worthless once all the ore had been extracted.
- 3
obsoleteEmptied of contents, especially of air; that has been made into a vacuum.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of exhaust
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Exhausted in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense very tired:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | épuisé, fatigué |
| German | erschöpft |
| Portuguese | esgotado, exausto, fatigado, afadigado |
| Spanish | exhausto, agotado |
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.
Where does exhausted come from?
From exhaust + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).