sailed
/seɪld/adjective, verb
sailed is spelled S-A-I-L-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, sailed means “Having a specified kind or number of sail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sailed?
| Letters | 6: S-A-I-L-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.1 times per million words; the 11,015th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sailed?
Sailed appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th 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 sailed?
- /seɪld/
Sailed has one syllable (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-sailed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sailed?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sailed.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ladies, aisled.
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 sailed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having a specified kind or number of sail.
a three-sailed ship
- 2
Having the sails set.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of sail
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).