fried
/fɹaɪd/adjective, verb
fried is spelled F-R-I-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, fried means “Cooked by frying” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in fried?
| Letters | 5: F-R-I-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,456th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is fried?
Fried appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th 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 fried?
- /fɹaɪd/
Fried 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-fried.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with fried?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as fried.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: fired.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of fried
- more fried comparative
- most fried superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fried mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Cooked by frying.
- 2
Fried with the yolk unbroken.
He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled.
- 3
Cooked in a deep fryer or pressure fryer or the like after being coated (breaded) in batter; compare deep-fried.
a bucket of fried chicken
- 4
colloquialBroken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.
It looks like your motherboard is fried.
- 5
slangStoned; under the influence of drugs.
Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.
- 6
slangDrunk; under the influence of alcohol.
- 7
slangExtremely tired due to exertion or stress; exhausted.
After nearly twelve hours at the office plus a nightmare commute home, I was fried and couldn’t think of anything but sleep.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of fry
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fried in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | frit , grillé |
| German | gebraten, frittiert , verschmort, durchgebrannt |
| Portuguese | frito |
| Spanish | frito, freído, fritado |
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.