incarcerated
adjective, verb
incarcerated is spelled I-N-C-A-R-C-E-R-A-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is incarcirated: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 118 of all searches for the word. Incarcerated is an adjective meaning “Imprisoned”.
How many letters and syllables are in incarcerated?
| Letters | 12: I-N-C-A-R-C-E-R-A-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 19,825th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, incarcirated, about 40 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 incarcerated?
Incarcerated is spelled I-N-C-A-R-C-E-R-A-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 117 of the searches for incarcerated 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 incarcerated?
Incarcerated appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 19,825th 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 incarcerated?
Incarcerated has 5 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).
What does incarcerated mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Imprisoned.
- 2
Of an organ or tissue, physically trapped, confined, or wedged into an abnormal position and that cannot return to its natural location.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of incarcerate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).