polluted
adjective, verb
polluted is spelled P-O-L-L-U-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is poluted: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Polluted is an adjective meaning “Made unclean or impure”.
How many letters and syllables are in polluted?
| Letters | 8: P-O-L-L-U-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, poluted, about 40 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 polluted?
Polluted is spelled P-O-L-L-U-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for polluted 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 polluted?
Polluted appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 polluted?
- US
Polluted 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). Recordings: En-us-polluted.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of polluted
- more polluted comparative
- most polluted superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does polluted mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Made unclean or impure.
- 2
IrelandDrunk.
verb
- 1
simple past of pollute
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Polluted in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense defiled:
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.