owned
/oʊnd/adjective, verb
owned is spelled O-W-N-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 58 times per million words in written English, the 1,793rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, owned means “Having an owner who is part of a specified group” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in owned?
| Letters | 5: O-W-N-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 58 times per million words; the 1,793rd 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 owned?
Owned appears 58 times per million words in written English, the 1,793rd 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 owned?
- UK /əʊnd/
- US /oʊnd/
Owned 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: En-us-owned.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with owned?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as owned from its last stressed vowel (/oʊnd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: endow.
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 owned mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having an owner who is part of a specified group.
black-owned; veteran-owned; woman-owned
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of own
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Owned in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | de propiedad, con dueño, tener dueño, de dueño |
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.