# wired

> English word · Adjective · IPA /waɪəd/ · frequency rank #9,696

## Definitions
1. Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
2. Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
3. Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
4. Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
5. Having wiry feathers.
6. All worked out; completely understood.
7. Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
8. Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
9. Connected to the Internet; online.

## Etymology
From wire + -ed.

## Easily confused with
- **word** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wired-vs-word)
- **wise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wired-vs-wise)
- **wore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wired-vs-wore)
- **wren** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wired-vs-wren)
- **world** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wired-vs-world)
- **wives** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wired-vs-wives)
- **wires** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wired-vs-wires)
- **wiser** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wired-vs-wiser)
- **worked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wired-vs-worked)
- **wished** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wired-vs-wished)
- **witted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wired-vs-witted)
- **wed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wed-vs-wired)
- **Wie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wie-vs-wired)
- **wid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wid-vs-wired)
- **were** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/were-vs-wired)
- **wife** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wife-vs-wired)
- **wide** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wide-vs-wired)
- **wind** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wind-vs-wired)
- **wild** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wild-vs-wired)
- **wine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wine-vs-wired)

## Common misspellings (6)
`iwred`, `wirde`, `wiredd`, `wirred`, `wried`, `wwired`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/wired