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wired

/waɪɹd/adjective, verb

wired is spelled W-I-R-E-D: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, wired means “Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in wired?

Letters5: W-I-R-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is wired?

Wired appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th 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 wired?

  • UK /waɪəd/
  • US /waɪɹd/

Wired has 2 syllables (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-wired.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with wired?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wired from its last stressed vowel (/aɪɹd/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: weird.

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 wired

  • more wired comparative
  • most wired superlative

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

What does wired mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.

  2. 2

    Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.

  3. 3

    Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.

  4. 4

    slangVery excited, overstimulated; high-strung.

    After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.

  5. 5

    Having wiry feathers.

  6. 6

    slangAll worked out; completely understood.

  7. 7

    slangBeing a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.

  8. 8

    slangBeing three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.

    I was dealt three of a kind, wired.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Wired in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbranché (equipped with wires), sur écoute (equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping…), attaché (reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire), surexcité (very excited, hyper; high-strung)
Germankabelgebunden (equipped with wires), verwanzt (equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping…), verdrahtet, mit Draht verstärkt (reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire), aufgedreht, aufgekratzt (very excited, hyper; high-strung)
Spanishconectado, cableado, alámbrico, con cable (equipped with wires), enchufado, muy acelerado (very excited, hyper; high-strung)
Portugueseacelerado, pilhado (very excited, hyper; high-strung)

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 wired come from?

From wire + -ed.

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

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