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matched

/mætʃt/verb, noun

matched is spelled M-A-T-C-H-E-D: 7 letters and one syllable. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, matched means “simple past and past participle of match” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in matched?

Letters7: M-A-T-C-H-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing10 times per million words; the 7,009th 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 matched?

Matched appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th 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 matched?

  • /mætʃt/

Matched has one syllable (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-matched.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does matched mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalEllipsis of matched grip.

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

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