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scarified

adjective, verb

scarified is spelled S-C-A-R-I-F-I-E-D: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, scarified means “damaged, barren, denuded, scarred, wasted” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in scarified?

Letters9: S-C-A-R-I-F-I-E-D
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 155,937th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is scarified?

Scarified appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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).

What does scarified mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    damaged, barren, denuded, scarred, wasted

    The scarified wasteland looked like a battle had been fought there – which, in fact, it had.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of scarify (a form of scarify)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does scarified come from?

From scarify + -ed.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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