patented
adjective, verb
patented is spelled P-A-T-E-N-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is pattented: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 28 of all searches for the word. Patented is an adjective meaning “For which a patent has been granted”.
How many letters and syllables are in patented?
| Letters | 8: P-A-T-E-N-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pattented, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell patented?
Patented is spelled P-A-T-E-N-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 28 of the searches for patented 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 patented?
Patented appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 patented?
Patented has 3 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).
What does patented mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
For which a patent has been granted.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of patent
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate patented?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of patented: patd..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Patented in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense for which a patent has been granted:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | patentiert |
| Spanish | patentado |
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.