serrated
/səˈɹeɪtɪd/adjective, verb
serrated is spelled S-E-R-R-A-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is serated: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Serrated is an adjective meaning “Notched or cut like a saw”.
How many letters and syllables are in serrated?
| Letters | 8: S-E-R-R-A-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 36,176th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, serated, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 serrated?
Serrated is spelled S-E-R-R-A-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for serrated 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 serrated?
Serrated appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,176th 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 serrated?
- UK /səˈɹeɪtɪd/
- UK /sɪˈɹeɪtɪd/
Serrated has 3 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)-Vealhurl-serrated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with serrated?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as serrated from its last stressed vowel (/eɪtɪd/, British pronunciation):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: arrested.
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 serrated mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Notched or cut like a saw.
That knife has a serrated blade.
- 2
Having a row of sharp or tooth-like projections.
Maple leaves have serrated edges.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of serrate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Serrated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense saw-like:
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.
Where does serrated come from?
Past participle of serrate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).