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flagellated

/ˈflædʒ.ə.leɪ.təd/verb, adjective

flagellated is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of flagellate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-G-E-L-L-A-T-E-D and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does flagellated mean?

verb

  1. 1

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Alternative form of flagellate.

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

How do you pronounce flagellated?

  • /ˈflædʒ.ə.leɪ.təd/

Flagellated 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flagellated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of flagellated

  • more flagellated comparative
  • most flagellated superlative

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

How common is flagellated?

Flagellated appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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).