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smashed

/smæʃt/adjective, verb

smashed is spelled S-M-A-S-H-E-D: 7 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, smashed means “Extensively broken; especially, in shards” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in smashed?

Letters7: S-M-A-S-H-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.9 times per million words; the 9,045th 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 smashed?

Smashed appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th 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 smashed?

  • /smæʃt/

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

Forms of smashed

  • more smashed comparative
  • most smashed superlative

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

What does smashed mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Extensively broken; especially, in shards.

    Some of the pottery is so smashed that it's not feasible even to do a restorative repair.

  2. 2

    slangDrunk.

    I was so smashed last night, I don’t remember how I got home!

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Where does smashed come from?

From smash + -ed.

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

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