stratified

strat·i·fiedadjective, verb

stratified is an adjective meaning “Arranged in a sequence of layers or strata” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-R-A-T-I-F-I-E-D and has 3 syllables (strat·i·fied), and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does stratified mean?

adjective

1
Arranged in a sequence of layers or strata.
2
Of a society, having a class structure.
3
Of a formula in New Foundations: such that there exists a kind of function from pieces of the formula's syntax to the natural numbers.

verb

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

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

How do you pronounce stratified?

Stratified has 3 syllables, split strat·i·fied in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stratified.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is stratified?

Stratified appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd most frequent word form in the list.

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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).

Stratified in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
German	geschichtet, Schicht- (arranged in a sequence of layers), selektiv, klassenselektiv, klassistisch (having a class structure)
Spanish	estratificado, apilado (arranged in a sequence of layers), selectivo, elitista, clasista (having a class structure)

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.