recycled
adjective, verb
recycled is an adjective meaning “That has been through a recycling process” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-Y-C-L-E-D and has 3 syllables, and it appears 3.6 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does recycled mean?
adjective
- 1
That has been through a recycling process.
This cardboard is made from recycled paper.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of recycle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce recycled?
Recycled 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).
How common is recycled?
Recycled appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th 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).
Recycled in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense passed through a recycling process:
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.