grizzled
adjective, verb
grizzled is an adjective meaning “Greyed, old” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-I-Z-Z-L-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does grizzled mean?
adjective
- 1
Greyed, old.
- 2
Grey or partly grey.
- 3
Streaked or mixed with grey; grizzly; griseous.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of grizzle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce grizzled?
Grizzled 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 grizzled
- more grizzled comparative
- most grizzled superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is grizzled?
Grizzled appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th 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).
Grizzled in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense greyed:
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.