Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

written

/ˈɹɪ.tn̩/

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.09 in modern English

Syllables: writ-ten
IPA: /ˈɹɪ.tn̩/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).

adj

Having been written.

noun

A rap that was written in advance, as opposed to a freestyle.

verb

past participle of write

Example Sentences

"Written language is a way of representing spoken language."
"I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese."
"Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?"
"The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read."

Etymology

Morphologically write + -en.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: write

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Music.

Inflected Forms

writtens (plural)

Derived Forms

bewritten unwrittenness writtenness

Phrases

above-written could be written on the back of a postage stamp custom-written hand-written have one's name written all over history is written by the victors written all over it written all over someone's face

Synonyms

scripted

Homonyms

ridden (t-flapping) return (non-rhotic, stress neutralized)

Antonyms

oral verbal unwritten

Rhymes With

britain gettin' kitten bitten rewritten unwritten smitten britton briton britten witten lytton

Questions

How do you pronounce written?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹɪ.tn̩/.
What does written mean?: Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).
Where does written come from?: Morphologically write + -en.

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