honored
verb, adjective
honored is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of honor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-N-O-R-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears 13 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does honored mean?
verb
- 1
USsimple past and past participle of honor
adjective
- 1
USUS standard spelling of honoured.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce honored?
Honored 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 honored
- more honored comparative
- most honored superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is honored?
Honored appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 6,047th 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).
Words people confuse with honored
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: honoured.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).