Scheduled

How to spell scheduled

9 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce scheduled

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does scheduled mean?

1. verbPlanned or arranged to happen at a particular time (past tense of schedule).
2. adjectiveIncluded in a plan or timetable; happening at a fixed, prearranged time.

Scheduled in a sentence

• verb

  The dentist scheduled her appointment for early Monday morning.

• adjective

  The scheduled departure time is printed on every boarding pass.

• verb

  The airline scheduled two extra flights over the holiday weekend.

• adjective

  A scheduled inspection takes place at the factory every quarter.

Where does scheduled come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This is the past tense and participle of 'schedule', which entered English in the late 1300s from the Old French 'cedule' or 'sedule', meaning a slip or note of paper. The deeper source is the Late Latin 'schedula', a diminutive of 'scheda', meaning a strip of papyrus or a leaf of paper; the original idea was a small written list attached to a larger document. For centuries the word was written and pronounced without the hard opening sound, but during the Renaissance scholars restored the Greek-looking 'sch-' spelling (echoing Greek 'skhede', a tablet) to reflect the Latin form, which is exactly why the modern spelling opens with the tricky 'sch'. The sense shifted from a written appendix to a timetable or plan only in the nineteenth century, and the doubled idea of a planned list survives today. The 'sch' start, pronounced 'sh' in Britain but 'sk' in North America, is the very feature that trips up writers who reach for a simpler 'sk' or 'sh' spelling.

How the word is built

• schedule (from Latin schedula: a small leaf of paper)
• -d (past tense / past participle ending)