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plastered

adjective, verb

plastered is spelled P-L-A-S-T-E-R-E-D: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, plastered means “Coated with plaster” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in plastered?

Letters9: P-L-A-S-T-E-R-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is plastered?

Plastered appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th 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 plastered?

  • Australia

Plastered 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: En-au-plastered.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of plastered

  • more plastered comparative
  • most plastered superlative

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

What does plastered mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Coated with plaster.

    The old home had plastered walls rather than drywall.

  2. 2

    Covered extensively with something, especially posters, pictures, or notices.

    The wall was plastered with pictures.

  3. 3

    slangDrunk, intoxicated.

    The only way he could deal with the grief following his wife's death was to get so plastered that he passed out.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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