voiced
/vɔɪst/adjective, verb
voiced is spelled V-O-I-C-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, voiced means “Sounded with vibration of the vocal cords. For example, the phone [z] is voiced, while [s] is unvoiced” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in voiced?
| Letters | 6: V-O-I-C-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 voiced?
Voiced appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th 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 voiced?
- /vɔɪst/
Voiced 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-voiced.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does voiced mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Sounded with vibration of the vocal cords. For example, the phone [z] is voiced, while [s] is unvoiced.
- 2
Having a specified kind of voice.
a shrill-voiced little boy
- 3
That contains voice.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of voice
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Voiced in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sounded with vibration of the vocal cords:
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.