horned

/ˈhɔː(ɹ)nd/adjective, verb

horned is spelled H-O-R-N-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, horned means “Having horns” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in horned?

Letters	6: H-O-R-N-E-D
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	1.1 times per million words; the 27,462nd 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 horned?

Horned appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,462nd most frequent word form in the list.

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rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

How do you pronounce horned?

/ˈhɔː(ɹ)nd/
/ˈhɔː(ɹ)nɪd/

Horned 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). Recordings: En-us-horned.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does horned mean?

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

adjective

1
Having horns.
A goat is a horned animal.
2
obsoleteCuckolded.

verb

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

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

Horned in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	cornu (having horns), accorné (heraldry sense)
German	gehörnt (having horns)
Portuguese	chifrudo, cornudo (having horns)
Spanish	astado (having horns)

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 horned come from?

From Middle English horned, hornyd, from Old English hyrned, ġehyrned (“having horns; horned”), from Proto-Germanic *hurnidaz (“horned”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *hurnijaną (“to horn; provide or fit with horns”); equivalent to horn (“noun”) + -ed. Cognate with Dutch gehoornd (“horned”), German gehörnt (“horned”), Danish hornede (“horned”).