hammered

adjective, verb

hammered is spelled H-A-M-M-E-R-E-D: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, hammered means “Having been hit with a hammer or hammer-like object” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in hammered?

Letters	8: H-A-M-M-E-R-E-D
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	2.7 times per million words; the 16,455th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none 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 hammered?

Hammered appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce hammered?

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

Forms of hammered

more hammered comparative
most hammered superlative

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

What does hammered mean?

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

adjective

1
Having been hit with a hammer or hammer-like object.
2
CanadaUKslangvery drunk; inebriated.
3
Overcooked.

verb

1
simple past and past participle of hammer (a form of hammer)