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tweaked

adjective, verb

tweaked is spelled T-W-E-A-K-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is tweeked: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Tweaked is an adjective meaning “Hallucinating, especially under the influence of crystal meth or similar narcotics”.

How many letters and syllables are in tweaked?

Letters7: T-W-E-A-K-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.2 times per million words; the 26,092nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, tweeked, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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).

How do you spell tweaked?

Tweaked is spelled T-W-E-A-K-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for tweaked in either form.

tweakedthe right spelling260 searches a month
tweekede in place of a40 searches a month

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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is tweaked?

Tweaked appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd 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 tweaked?

  • Australia

Tweaked 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-au-tweaked.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of tweaked

  • more tweaked comparative
  • most tweaked superlative

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

What does tweaked mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    slangHallucinating, especially under the influence of crystal meth or similar narcotics.

  2. 2

    slangBroken, messy, out of order.

  3. 3

    slangOn edge, nervous, tense.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of tweak (a form of tweak)

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

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