Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sealed

/siːld/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English

Syllables: sealed
IPA: /siːld/

7

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of seal

adj

Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).

adj

Preventing entrance.

adj

Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.

adj

Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.

Example Sentences

"Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet."

Derived Forms

nonsealed presealed unsealed

Phrases

heat-sealed hermetically sealed keep one's lips sealed my lips are sealed sealed battery sealed beam sealed-beam headlight sealed bearing

Synonyms

impermeable plastered certain

Rhymes With

field revealed shield yield appealed concealed healed wheeled repealed peeled wield afield

Questions

How do you pronounce sealed?: The recorded pronunciation is /siːld/.
What does sealed mean?: simple past and past participle of seal

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