saturated
adjective, noun, verb
saturated is spelled S-A-T-U-R-A-T-E-D: 9 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, saturated means “Full; unable to hold or contain any more” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in saturated?
| Letters | 9: S-A-T-U-R-A-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.6 times per million words; the 11,870th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is saturated?
Saturated appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th 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 saturated?
- US
Saturated has 4 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-saturated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of saturated
- more saturated comparative
- most saturated superlative
- saturateds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does saturated mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
- 2
Soaked or drenched with moisture.
- 3
Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
- 4
Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
- 5
Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S.
- 6
Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y) (the kernel, noun sense 10, of f).
- 7
Conforming to saturation arithmetic.
a saturated value
- 8
Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).
a saturated image
noun
- 1
A saturated hydrocarbon.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of saturate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate saturated?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of saturated: sat, sat..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Saturated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense full; unable to hold or contain any more:
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.