wanted

Other forms of wanted

comparative

wantedder·

superlative

wanteddest·

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 wanted

What does wanted mean?

wanted means "desired or wished for or sought". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wanted?

wanted has 2 syllables: wan-ted. The stress falls on "wan". In IPA it is /ˈwɔntɪd/.

What is another word for wanted?

Close synonyms include cherished, precious, treasured. 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.

What is the opposite of wanted?

The recorded antonyms are unwanted.

Is wanted a common word?

wanted 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 wanted?

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