favored
verb, adjective
favored is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of favor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-V-O-R-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears 5.9 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does favored mean?
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of favor
adjective
- 1
USUS standard spelling of favoured.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce favored?
Favored has 2 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).
Forms of favored
- more favored comparative
- most favored superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is favored?
Favored appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th 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).
Words people confuse with favored
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: favoured.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).