fascinated
/ˈfæsɪneɪtɪd/adjective, verb
fascinated is spelled F-A-S-C-I-N-A-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is facinated: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Fascinated is an adjective meaning “extremely interested”.
How many letters and syllables are in fascinated?
| Letters | 10: F-A-S-C-I-N-A-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.0 times per million words; the 12,940th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, facinated, about 60 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 fascinated?
Fascinated is spelled F-A-S-C-I-N-A-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for fascinated 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 fascinated?
Fascinated appears 4.0 times per million words in written English, the 12,940th 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 fascinated?
- /ˈfæsɪneɪtɪd/
Fascinated has 4 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-fascinated.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fascinated
- more fascinated comparative
- most fascinated superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fascinated mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
extremely interested
utterly fascinated
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of fascinate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fascinated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense extremely interested:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fasciné |
| German | fasziniert |
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.