skewed

/skjuːd/adjective, verb

skewed is spelled S-K-E-W-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, skewed means “Twisted at an angle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in skewed?

Letters	6: S-K-E-W-E-D
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	1.7 times per million words; the 21,209th 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 skewed?

Skewed appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce skewed?

/skjuːd/

Skewed 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-skewed.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does skewed mean?

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

adjective

1
Twisted at an angle.
2
Biased, distorted

verb

1
simple past and past participle of skew (a form of skew)

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

Skewed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
German	verdreht, verzogen, abgeschrägt, schräg, schief (twisted at an angle), verzerrt (biased, distorted)
Spanish	chueco, enviajado (twisted at an angle), sesgado, distorsionado (biased, distorted)

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.