stranded

/ˈstɹændɪd/adjective, verb

stranded is spelled S-T-R-A-N-D-E-D: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, stranded means “Abandoned or marooned” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in stranded?

Letters	8: S-T-R-A-N-D-E-D
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th 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 stranded?

Stranded appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce stranded?

/ˈstɹændɪd/

Stranded has 2 syllables (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-stranded.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does stranded mean?

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

adjective

1
Abandoned or marooned.
2
Run aground on a shore or reef.
3
Not having any expressed complement.
4
Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
5
That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.
6
Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
7
Having the specified number or kind of strands.
single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded

verb

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

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

Stranded in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	abandonné (of a person), échoué (of a vessel)
Spanish	abandonado (of a person), varado (of a vessel), trenzado (of a piece of wire: made by combining or…)

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 stranded come from?

From strand + -ed.