squared

/skwɛɹd/adjective, verb

squared is spelled S-Q-U-A-R-E-D: 7 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, squared means “Covered with a grid of squares” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in squared?

Letters	7: S-Q-U-A-R-E-D
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	2.5 times per million words; the 17,342nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	prepared shared scared declared more

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 squared?

Squared appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd most frequent word form in the list.

squared0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

How do you pronounce squared?

UK /skwɛəd/
US /skwɛɹd/
Australia /skweːd/

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

What rhymes with squared?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as squared from its last stressed vowel (/ɛɹd/):

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 squared mean?

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

adjective

1
Covered with a grid of squares.
The children were taught to plot graphs on squared paper.
2
Raised to the second power.
3
Located on the specified kind of square on the board.
a light-squared bishop

verb

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

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

Squared in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
Spanish	cuadriculado (covered with a grid of squares), al cuadrado, elevado al cuadrado (raised to the second power)
French	carré (raised to the second power)
German	zum Quadrat, quadriert (raised to the second power)
Portuguese	ao quadrado (raised to the second power)

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.