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knitted

/ˈnɪtɪd/adjective, verb

knitted is spelled K-N-I-T-T-E-D: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, knitted means “Made by knitting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in knitted?

Letters7: K-N-I-T-T-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.4 times per million words; the 23,536th 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 knitted?

Knitted appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th 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 knitted?

  • /ˈnɪtɪd/

Knitted 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: En-us-knitted.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does knitted mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Made by knitting.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Knitted in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense made by knitting:

LanguageWords
Frenchtricoté

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.

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