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skinned

/skɪnd/adjective, verb

skinned is spelled S-K-I-N-N-E-D: 7 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, skinned means “Having skin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in skinned?

Letters7: S-K-I-N-N-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 skinned?

Skinned appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 skinned?

  • /skɪnd/

Skinned 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-skinned.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does skinned mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Having skin.

  2. 2

    Having a specific type of skin.

  3. 3

    Covered in a thin membrane resembling skin.

  4. 4

    Having skin (or similar outer layer) totally or partially removed.

    My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.

  5. 5

    slangStripped of money or property.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Skinned in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense stripped of money:

LanguageWords
Germanmittellos, pleite

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 skinned come from?

From skin (noun) + -ed (“having”).

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

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