tied
/taɪd/adjective, verb
tied is spelled T-I-E-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, tied means “Closely associated or connected” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in tied?
| Letters | 4: T-I-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 30 times per million words; the 3,161st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tied?
Tied appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st 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 tied?
- /taɪd/
- [tʰaːd]
- Australia [tʰɑe̯d]
Tied 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-tied.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with tied
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: tide (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with tied?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tied.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: diet, edit, tide, dite.
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).
Forms of tied
- more tied comparative
- most tied superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tied mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Closely associated or connected.
As a couple, they are strongly tied to one another.
- 2
Restricted.
- 3
Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
- 4
Of a public house, bar, etc., obliged to sell beer from only one brewery, or alcoholic drinks from one pubco.
- 5
That resulted in a tie.
- 6
Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
- 7
Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.
- 8
A cover having a stamp where the postmark cancellation overlaps the stamp.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of tie
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tied in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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.