pleased
/pliːzd/adjective, verb
pleased is spelled P-L-E-A-S-E-D: 7 letters and one syllable. It appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, pleased means “Happy, content” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in pleased?
| Letters | 7: P-L-E-A-S-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 28 times per million words; the 3,364th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 pleased?
Pleased appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th 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 pleased?
- /pliːzd/
Pleased 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-pleased.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pleased
- more pleased comparative
- most pleased superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pleased mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Happy, content.
She was pleased about her exam results.
- 2
archaicAgreeable, consenting (when referring to a monarch or other powerful person).
The queen was pleased to accept the countess into her household as a lady-in-waiting.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of please
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pleased in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense happy, content:
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.
Where does pleased come from?
From Middle English plesed, iplesed (past participle) and Middle English plesede (preterit), both equivalent to please + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).