prolonged
pro·longed/pɹoʊˈlɔŋd/adjective, verb
prolonged is spelled P-R-O-L-O-N-G-E-D, 2 syllables: pro·longed. The wrong spelling people search most is prolongued: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 43 of all searches for the word. Prolonged is an adjective meaning “Lengthy in duration; extended; protracted”.
How many letters and syllables are in prolonged?
| Letters | 9: P-R-O-L-O-N-G-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: pro·longed |
| In writing | 6.5 times per million words; the 9,463rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, prolongued, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 prolonged?
Prolonged is spelled P-R-O-L-O-N-G-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for prolonged 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 prolonged?
Prolonged appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd 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 prolonged?
- UK /pɹəʊˈlɒŋd/
- US /pɹoʊˈlɔŋd/
- /pɹoʊˈlɑŋd/
Prolonged has 2 syllables, split pro·longed in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-prolonged.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of prolonged
- more prolonged comparative
- most prolonged superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does prolonged mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Lengthy in duration; extended; protracted.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of prolong
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Prolonged in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense lengthy in duration; extended; protracted:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | prolongé |
| German | anhaltend, lang anhaltend, andauernd, ausgedehnt, langwierig, länger dauernd |
| Portuguese | prolongado |
| Spanish | prolongado |
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.