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numbered

num·bered/ˈnʌmbɚd/adjective, verb

numbered is spelled N-U-M-B-E-R-E-D: 8 letters and 2 syllables (num·bered). It appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, numbered means “Containing numbers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in numbered?

Letters8: N-U-M-B-E-R-E-D
Syllables2: num·bered
In writing6.6 times per million words; the 9,313th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is numbered?

Numbered appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th 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 numbered?

  • US /ˈnʌmbɚd/
  • UK /ˈnʌmbəd/

Numbered has 2 syllables, split num·bered in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-numbered.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with numbered?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as numbered from its last stressed vowel (/ʌmbəɹd/):

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 numbered mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Containing numbers.

  2. 2

    limited in quantity, finite

    Our days on earth are numbered.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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