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framed

/fɹeɪmd/adjective, verb

framed is spelled F-R-A-M-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, framed means “Having, or enclosed in, a frame” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in framed?

Letters6: F-R-A-M-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is framed?

Framed appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 framed?

  • /fɹeɪmd/

Framed 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: En-us-framed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of framed

  • more framed comparative
  • most framed superlative

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

What does framed mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Having, or enclosed in, a frame.

  2. 2

    Falsely implicated via fabricated evidence.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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