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spoken

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈspəʊ.k(ə)n//
  • United States//ˈspoʊ.kən//

Expressed in speech.

adjective

  1. 1

    Expressed in speech.

  2. 2

    Speaking in a specified way.

    soft-spoken

    well-spoken

    They are both described as thoughtful, slow-spoken men.

  3. 3

    Of a language, produced by articulate sounds.

    Algebra is not a spoken language like French or Spanish, it is a math language.

Etymology

Morphologically spoke + -n.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of speakpast participle of speak

Forms

comparative
more spoken
superlative
most spoken
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).