named
/neɪmd/adjective, verb
named is spelled N-A-M-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 89 times per million words in written English, the 1,191st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, named means “Having a name” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in named?
| Letters | 5: N-A-M-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 89 times per million words; the 1,191st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is named?
Named appears 89 times per million words in written English, the 1,191st 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 named?
- /neɪmd/
Named 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)-Back_ache-named.wav, En-us-named.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with named?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as named.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: amend, deman, maned.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does named mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having a name.
The county contains various named streams and several unnamed ones.
- 2
An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its name in the invocation code, rather than on its position; compare with positional.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of name
Near-synonym: called (verb)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Named in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having a name:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | nommé |
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.