manufactured
man·u·fac·tured/ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚd/adjective, verb
manufactured is spelled M-A-N-U-F-A-C-T-U-R-E-D, 4 syllables: man·u·fac·tured. The wrong spelling people search most is manufatured: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 54 of all searches for the word. Manufactured is an adjective meaning “manmade; produced by humans rather than nature”.
How many letters and syllables are in manufactured?
| Letters | 12: M-A-N-U-F-A-C-T-U-R-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: man·u·fac·tured |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, manufatured, about 10 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 manufactured?
Manufactured is spelled M-A-N-U-F-A-C-T-U-R-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 54 of the searches for manufactured 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 manufactured?
Manufactured appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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 manufactured?
- US /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚd/
- UK /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəd/
Manufactured has 4 syllables, split man·u·fac·tured in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-manufactured.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of manufactured
- more manufactured comparative
- most manufactured superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does manufactured mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
manmade; produced by humans rather than nature
- 2
not genuine; contrived
a manufactured boy band
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of manufacture
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate manufactured?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of manufactured: mfd.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).