nosed
/noʊ̯zd/adjective, verb
nosed is spelled N-O-S-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, nosed means “Having some specific type of nose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in nosed?
| Letters | 5: N-O-S-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 24,170th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 nosed?
Nosed appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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 nosed?
- UK /nəʊ̯zd/
- British /nəwzd/
- US /noʊ̯zd/
Nosed 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-nosed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with nosed?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nosed from its last stressed vowel (/oʊzd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sonde.
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 nosed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having some specific type of nose.
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of nose
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).