obsessed
/əbˈsɛst/adjective, verb
obsessed is spelled O-B-S-E-S-S-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is obssessed: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 43 of all searches for the word. Obsessed is an adjective meaning “Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession”.
How many letters and syllables are in obsessed?
| Letters | 8: O-B-S-E-S-S-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,230th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, obssessed, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell obsessed?
Obsessed is spelled O-B-S-E-S-S-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 43 of the searches for obsessed 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 obsessed?
Obsessed appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th 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 obsessed?
- US /əbˈsɛst/
Obsessed has 2 syllables (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)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-obsessed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with obsessed?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as obsessed from its last stressed vowel (/ɛst/):
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).
Forms of obsessed
- more obsessed comparative
- most obsessed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does obsessed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
- 2
Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of obsess
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Obsessed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | obsédé, obnubilé |
| German | besessen |
| Portuguese | obcecado |
| Spanish | obsesionado, obseso, obcecado |
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.