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seated

/ˈsiːtɪd/adjective, verb

seated is spelled S-E-A-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is sitted: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 57 of all searches for the word. Seated is an adjective meaning “Sitting”.

How many letters and syllables are in seated?

Letters6: S-E-A-T-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.8 times per million words; the 8,417th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, sitted, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them)
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); 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 seated?

Seated is spelled S-E-A-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 57 of the searches for seated in either form.

seatedthe right spelling2,250 searches a month
sittedi in place of e, t in place of a40 searches a month

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 seated?

Seated appears 7.8 times per million words in written English, the 8,417th 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 seated?

  • /ˈsiːtɪd/

Seated 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-seated.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with seated?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as seated.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: sedate.

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 seated mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Sitting.

  2. 2

    Of a woman's skirt, stretched out and baggy over the wearer's buttocks from much sitting while wearing the skirt.

  3. 3

    Fixed; confirmed.

  4. 4

    Located; situated.

  5. 5

    Furnished with a seat.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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