tried

Other forms of tried

comparative

trieder·

superlative

triedest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tried

What does tried mean?

tried means "tested and proved useful or correct". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tried?

tried has 1 syllable: tried. In IPA it is /ˈtɹaɪd/.

What is another word for tried?

Close synonyms include tested, well-tried, tested, time-tested, tried and true. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tried a common word?

tried is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tried?

1 word rhymes with tried. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.