spent
/spɛnt/adjective, verb
spent is spelled S-P-E-N-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 105 times per million words in written English, the 1,021st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, spent means “Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in spent?
| Letters | 5: S-P-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 105 times per million words; the 1,021st 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 spent?
Spent appears 105 times per million words in written English, the 1,021st 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 spent?
- /spɛnt/
Spent 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)-Pvanp7-spent.wav, En-us-spent.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does spent mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
a spent cartridge
- 2
Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.
- 3
UKOf legislation or an enactment: no longer in force due to all of its provisions having expired or been completed.
- 4
UKOf a conviction: no longer appearing on a person's criminal record.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of spend
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Spent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense used up:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | épuisé, fatigué, éreinté |
| German | leer, aufgebraucht, entleert |
| Portuguese | usado |
| Spanish | gastado |
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.