interested
/ˈɪnt.əˌɹɛs.tɪd/adjective, verb
interested is spelled I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is intrested: about 450 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Interested is an adjective meaning “Having or showing interest (attention or curiosity)”.
How many letters and syllables are in interested?
| Letters | 10: I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 89 times per million words; the 1,191st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, intrested, about 450 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 interested?
Interested is spelled I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T-E-D. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for interested 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 interested?
Interested appears 89 times per million words in written English, the 1,191st 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 interested?
- UK /ˈɪnt.ə.ɹɪs.tɪd/
- UK /ˈɪn.tɹɪs.tɪd/
- US /ˈɪnt.əˌɹɛs.tɪd/
Interested has 3 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-interested.ogg, En-us-interested-2.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of interested
- more interested comparative
- most interested superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does interested mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having or showing interest (attention or curiosity).
I'm very interested in going to see that play.
- 2
Having an interest (stake); being a stakeholder; motivated by considerations of self-interest; self-serving.
all interested parties [≈ all stakeholders]
- 3
Owning a share of a company; being a shareholder.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of interest
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Interested in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having or showing interest:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | intéressé |
| German | interessiert |
| Portuguese | interessado |
| Spanish | interesado |
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.