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wakeful

/ˈweɪk.fʊl/adjective

wakeful is spelled W-A-K-E-F-U-L: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, wakeful means “Awake; not sleeping” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in wakeful?

Letters7: W-A-K-E-F-U-L
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is wakeful?

Wakeful appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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 wakeful?

  • /ˈweɪk.fʊl/
  • /ˈweɪk.f(ə)l/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-wakeful.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of wakeful

  • more wakeful comparative
  • most wakeful superlative
  • wakefull

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

What does wakeful mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Awake; not sleeping.

  2. 2

    Sleepless.

  3. 3

    Vigilant and alert; watchful.

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

Wakeful in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchéveillé (awake rather than sleeping – see also awake)
Portuguesevígil (awake rather than sleeping – see also awake), desperto (sleepless – see also sleepless), vigilante (watchful – see also vigilant, watchful)
Germanwach, schlaflos, wachsam, aufmerksam, unruhig, vigilant (sleepless – see also sleepless)

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 wakeful come from?

From wake + -ful.

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

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