experienced
ex·pe·ri·enced/ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.ənst/adjective, verb
experienced is spelled E-X-P-E-R-I-E-N-C-E-D, 4 syllables: ex·pe·ri·enced. The wrong spelling people search most is experianced: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Experienced is an adjective meaning “Having experience and skill in a subject”.
How many letters and syllables are in experienced?
| Letters | 11: E-X-P-E-R-I-E-N-C-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: ex·pe·ri·enced |
| In writing | 43 times per million words; the 2,339th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, experianced, about 70 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 experienced?
Experienced is spelled E-X-P-E-R-I-E-N-C-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 experienced?
Experienced appears 43 times per million words in written English, the 2,339th 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 experienced?
- US /ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.ənst/
- UK /ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪənst/
Experienced has 4 syllables, split ex·pe·ri·enced in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-experienced.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of experienced
- more experienced comparative
- most experienced superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does experienced mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having experience and skill in a subject.
- 2
Experient.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of experience
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Experienced in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having experience:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | expérimenté |
| German | erfahren, sattelfest |
| Portuguese | experiente |
| Spanish | experimentado, avezado, ducho, asendereado, experienciado |
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 experienced come from?
From experience + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).