hidden
/ˈhɪd.(ə)n/adjective, noun, verb
hidden is spelled H-I-D-D-E-N. The wrong spelling people search most is hiden: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 41 of all searches for the word. Hidden is an adjective meaning “Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent”.
How many letters and syllables are in hidden?
| Letters | 6: H-I-D-D-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 34 times per million words; the 2,831st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hiden, about 170 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 hidden?
Hidden is spelled H-I-D-D-E-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 41 of the searches for hidden 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 hidden?
Hidden appears 34 times per million words in written English, the 2,831st 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 hidden?
- /ˈhɪd.(ə)n/
Hidden 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-hidden.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hidden
- more hidden comparative
- most hidden superlative
- hiddens plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hidden mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.
hidden treasure; hidden talents
- 2
Obscure.
noun
- 1
A hidden answer clue; one in which the letters of the solution appear consecutively in the wordplay.
verb
- 1
past participle of hide
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hidden in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | caché |
| German | versteckt, verborgen |
| Portuguese | escondido , abstruso, obscuro |
| Spanish | escondido, oculto, recóndito, soterrado |
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.
Where does hidden come from?
Morphologically hid + -en.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).