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trend

/tɹɛnd/noun, verb

trend is spelled T-R-E-N-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,941st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, trend means “An inclination in a particular direction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of trend is trends.

How many letters and syllables are in trend?

Letters5: T-R-E-N-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing32 times per million words; the 2,941st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 trend?

Trend appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,941st 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 trend?

  • /tɹɛnd/

Trend 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)-I_learned_some_phrases-trend.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of trend

  • trends plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • trending participle, present
  • trended participle, past

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

What does trend mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An inclination in a particular direction.

    Her trend is to dump boyfriends when it gets serious.

  2. 2

    A tendency.

    There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.

  3. 3

    A fad or fashion style.

    Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s.

  4. 4

    An innovation, or a development of innovations.

    New trends in AI research are resulting in new opportunities.

  5. 5

    A general development over distance.

    The trend of the boundary goes around the mountains.

  6. 6

    A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points; the shift over time represented by such a curve on a graph.

  7. 7

    The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill.

  8. 8

    The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.

  9. 9

    UKdatedClean wool.

verb

  1. 1

    To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.

    The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

  2. 2

    To cause to turn; to bend.

  3. 3

    informalTo be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.

    What topics have been trending on social networks this week?

  4. 4

    To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool).

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

Trend in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpenchant, tendance (inclination in a direction)
GermanTrend, Tendenz, Neigung (inclination in a direction), verlaufen, erstrecken, streben (To have a particular direction; to run; to…)
Portuguesetendência (inclination in a direction), tender (To have a particular direction; to run; to…), moda, modinha (a fad)
Spanishtendencia, tónica, corriente (inclination in a direction), moda (a fad), estar de moda, estar a la última (to be the subject of a trend)

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 trend come from?

From Middle English trenden (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Old English trendan (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *trandijan (“to turn, roll, revolve”), apparently derived from a strong verb Proto-West Germanic *trindan. Cognate with Dutch trent (“circumference”). Akin to Old English trinde (“ball”), Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”). More at trindle, trundle.

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

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