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fazed

/ˈfeɪzd/adjective, verb

fazed is spelled F-A-Z-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, fazed means “Hesitant, frightened; daunted, disconcerted; perturbed, put off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in fazed?

Letters5: F-A-Z-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 69,884th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like

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 common is fazed?

Fazed appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th 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 fazed?

  • /ˈfeɪzd/

Fazed has one syllable (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-fazed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with fazed

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

Sounds like: phased (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of fazed

  • more fazed comparative
  • most fazed superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does fazed mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Hesitant, frightened; daunted, disconcerted; perturbed, put off.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of faze (a form of faze)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does fazed come from?

From faze + -ed.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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