halved
adjective, verb
halved is spelled H-A-L-V-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is halfed: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Halved is an adjective meaning “Divided into halves”.
How many letters and syllables are in halved?
| Letters | 6: H-A-L-V-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,789th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, halfed, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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 do you spell halved?
Halved is spelled H-A-L-V-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for halved in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is halved?
Halved appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th 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 halved?
Halved 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).
What does halved mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Divided into halves.
- 2
Appearing as if one side were cut away.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of halve
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).