relieved
/ɹɪˈliːvd/adjective, verb
relieved is spelled R-E-L-I-E-V-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is releived: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Relieved is an adjective meaning “Experiencing or exhibiting relief; freed from stress or discomfort”.
How many letters and syllables are in relieved?
| Letters | 8: R-E-L-I-E-V-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.9 times per million words; the 7,672nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, releived, about 160 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 relieved?
Relieved is spelled R-E-L-I-E-V-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for relieved 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 relieved?
Relieved appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd 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 relieved?
- /ɹɪˈliːvd/
Relieved has 2 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-relieved.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of relieved
- more relieved comparative
- most relieved superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does relieved mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Experiencing or exhibiting relief; freed from stress or discomfort.
She was extremely relieved when the lesson finished.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of relieve
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Relieved in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense alleviated:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | soulagé |
| German | erleichtert |
| Portuguese | aliviado |
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.