received
re·ceived/ɹɪˈsiːvd/adjective, verb
received is spelled R-E-C-E-I-V-E-D, 2 syllables: re·ceived. The wrong spelling people search most is recieved: about 7,950 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Received is an adjective meaning “Generally accepted as correct or true”.
How many letters and syllables are in received?
| Letters | 8: R-E-C-E-I-V-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: re·ceived |
| In writing | 145 times per million words; the 711th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, recieved, about 7,950 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell received?
Received is spelled R-E-C-E-I-V-E-D. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for received 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 received?
Received appears 145 times per million words in written English, the 711th 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 received?
- /ɹɪˈsiːvd/
Received has 2 syllables, split re·ceived in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-received.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with received?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as received.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: deceiver.
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 received mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Generally accepted as correct or true.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of receive
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate received?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of received: rcd., rec'd, recd., recvd.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Received in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | recibido |
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.