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jaundiced

/ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪst/adjective, verb

jaundiced is spelled J-A-U-N-D-I-C-E-D: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, jaundiced means “Affected with jaundice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in jaundiced?

Letters9: J-A-U-N-D-I-C-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 71,529th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 jaundiced?

Jaundiced appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th 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 jaundiced?

  • /ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪst/

Jaundiced 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)-Vealhurl-jaundiced.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of jaundiced

  • more jaundiced comparative
  • most jaundiced superlative

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

What does jaundiced mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Affected with jaundice.

  2. 2

    Prejudiced; envious.

    a jaundiced judgment

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of jaundice (a form of jaundice)

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

Jaundiced in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germangelbsüchtig (affected with jaundice)
Spanishictérico (affected with jaundice), amargado, resentido (prejudiced, envious)

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 jaundiced come from?

From jaundice + -ed.

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

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