smoked
/smoʊkt/adjective, verb
smoked is spelled S-M-O-K-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, smoked means “Of food, treated with smoke, often for flavor or as a method of preservation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in smoked?
| Letters | 6: S-M-O-K-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.3 times per million words; the 8,036th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is smoked?
Smoked appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th 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 smoked?
- UK /sməʊkt/
- US /smoʊkt/
Smoked 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-smoked.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with smoked?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as smoked from its last stressed vowel (/oʊkt/):
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 smoked mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of food, treated with smoke, often for flavor or as a method of preservation.
smoked salmon
- 2
Of glass, tinted.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of smoke
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate smoked?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of smoked: smkd..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Smoked in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of food, preserved by treatment with smoke:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fumé |
| German | geräuchert, geselcht |
| Portuguese | defumado |
| Spanish | ahumado, ajumado |
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 smoked come from?
From Middle English smoked, y-smoked, equivalent to smoke + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).