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labeled

adjective, verb

labeled is spelled L-A-B-E-L-E-D: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, labeled means “Having a label, tagged” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in labeled?

Letters7: L-A-B-E-L-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.1 times per million words; the 8,146th 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 labeled?

Labeled appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th 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 labeled?

  • US

Labeled 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)-Wodencafe-labeled.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of labeled

  • labelled

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

What does labeled mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    USHaving a label, tagged.

    The butterfly collection had each specimen labeled with the scientific name on a little piece of paper.

  2. 2

    USDefined or described.

    He was labeled as a racist for his otherwise innocent remark.

  3. 3

    USHaving an atom replaced by a radioactive isotope

    Insulin labeled with iodine-125 was used as a tracer

verb

  1. 1

    USsimple past and past participle of label (a form of label)

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

Labeled in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense having a label, tagged:

LanguageWords
Germanbeschriftet, gekennzeichnet

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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