hooded

/ˈhʊdɪd/adjective, verb

hooded is spelled H-O-O-D-E-D: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, hooded means “Wearing a hood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in hooded?

Letters	6: H-O-O-D-E-D
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st 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 hooded?

Hooded appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st 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 hooded?

US /ˈhʊdɪd/
British /ˈhɵdɪd/
/ˈhʉdɪd/

Hooded 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-hooded.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does hooded mean?

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

adjective

1
Wearing a hood.
2
Covered with a hood.
3
Shaped like a hood.
4
Having a crest or similar elastic skin or muscle or bone in the neck or behind-the-head area.
5
Having a single, unbroken line of colour from the full head down to the spine and possibly towards the tail.
6
Fitted with a hood.
A hooded anorak.
7
Having thick, drooping eyelids.
8
slangUncircumcised.

verb

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

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

Hooded in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
Portuguese	encapuzado (wearing a hood)
Spanish	encapuchado (wearing a hood)
French	encapuchonné (covered with a hood)

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 hooded come from?

From hood + -ed.