wounded
wound·ed/ˈwuːndɪd/adjective, verb
wounded is spelled W-O-U-N-D-E-D: 7 letters and 2 syllables (wound·ed). It appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,153rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, wounded means “Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in wounded?
| Letters | 7: W-O-U-N-D-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: wound·ed |
| In writing | 21 times per million words; the 4,153rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 wounded?
Wounded appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,153rd 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 wounded?
- /ˈwuːndɪd/
Wounded has 2 syllables, split wound·ed in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-wounded.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does wounded mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
A wounded soldier.
- 2
Suffering from an emotional injury.
My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
- 3
Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.
a wounded nucleon
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of wound
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Wounded in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense suffering from a wound:
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.