tailed
/teɪld/adjective, verb
tailed is spelled T-A-I-L-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, tailed means “Having a tail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in tailed?
| Letters | 6: T-A-I-L-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.3 times per million words; the 18,064th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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 tailed?
Tailed appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th 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 tailed?
- /teɪld/
Tailed 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)-Vealhurl-tailed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with tailed?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tailed.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: detail, dilate.
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 tailed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having a tail.
There are several tailed species of mammals.
- 2
Of certain butterflies, having one or more filamentous projections on the tornal section of each hind wing.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of tail
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tailed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having a tail:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | caudate |
| German | Schwanz- |
| Spanish | que tiene cola |
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 tailed come from?
From Middle English tayled; equivalent to tail + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).