irritated
ir·ri·tat·ed/ˈɪɹɪteɪtɪd/adjective, verb
irritated is spelled I-R-R-I-T-A-T-E-D, 4 syllables: ir·ri·tat·ed. The wrong spelling people search most is iritated: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 51 of all searches for the word. Irritated is an adjective meaning “Experiencing a feeling of irritation”.
How many letters and syllables are in irritated?
| Letters | 9: I-R-R-I-T-A-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: ir·ri·tat·ed |
| In writing | 3.2 times per million words; the 14,928th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, iritated, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 irritated?
Irritated is spelled I-R-R-I-T-A-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 51 of the searches for irritated 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 irritated?
Irritated appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th 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 irritated?
- US /ˈɪɹɪteɪtɪd/
- British /ˈɪɹɪtɛjtɪd/
- /ˈɪɾɪtetɪd/
Irritated has 4 syllables, split ir·ri·tat·ed in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-irritated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of irritated
- more irritated comparative
- most irritated superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does irritated mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Experiencing a feeling of irritation.
She felt irritated by the constant noise.
- 2
Inflamed and painful.
irritated skin
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of irritate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Irritated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense experiencing a feeling of irritation:
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.