recognised
verb, adjective
recognised is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of recognise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-O-G-N-I-S-E-D and has 3 syllables, and it appears 12 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does recognised mean?
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of recognise
adjective
- 1
UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of recognized.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce recognised?
Recognised 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).
Forms of recognised
- more recognised comparative
- most recognised superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is recognised?
Recognised appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th 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).
Words people confuse with recognised
Also written: recognized.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).