required
re·quired/ɹɪˈkwaɪɹd/adjective, verb
required is spelled R-E-Q-U-I-R-E-D, 2 syllables: re·quired. The wrong spelling people search most is recquired: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 625 of all searches for the word. Required is an adjective meaning “Necessary; obligatory; mandatory”.
How many letters and syllables are in required?
| Letters | 8: R-E-Q-U-I-R-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: re·quired |
| In writing | 105 times per million words; the 1,021st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, recquired, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 required?
Required is spelled R-E-Q-U-I-R-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 321 of the searches for required 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 required?
Required appears 105 times per million words in written English, the 1,021st 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 required?
- US /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹd/
- UK /ɹɪˈkwaɪəd/
Required has 2 syllables, split re·quired in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-required.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with required?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as required from its last stressed vowel (/aɪɹd/):
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).
Forms of required
- more required comparative
- most required superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does required mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.
required course
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of require
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate required?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of required: req'd, reqd, reqd..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).