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pawed

/pɔd/adjective, verb

pawed is spelled P-A-W-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, pawed means “Having (a specified kind or number of) paws” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in pawed?

Letters5: P-A-W-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 95,993rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is pawed?

Pawed appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd 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 pawed?

  • UK /pɔːd/
  • US /pɔd/
  • /pɑd/

Pawed 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-pawed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with pawed?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as pawed from its last stressed vowel (/ɔd/):

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 pawed mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Having (a specified kind or number of) paws.

    a muddy-pawed puppy

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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