Hide or hyde?
hide is a verb meaning “To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to…”; hyde is a noun meaning “Alternative form of hide (area of land)”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) hide is about 6.9 times as common as hyde.
What is the difference between hide and hyde?
| hide | hyde | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb, noun | noun |
| Meaning | To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find The skin of an animal | Alternative form of hide (area of land) |
| Example | He hides his magazines under the bed | none recorded |
| Forms | hides, hiding, hid, hidden hides, hiding, hided | hydes |
| Pronunciation | /haɪd/ /hɛɪd/ | not recorded |
| In writing | 35 times per million words | 5.0 times per million words |
Sources: hide and hyde in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of hide and hyde
hide
- 1
To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover
He hides his magazines under the bed
- 2
The skin of an animal
- 3
To beat with a whip made from hide
- 4
A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents
- 5
To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find
You can run, but you can't hide!
- 6
USinformalOne's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril
to save his own hide
- 7
(mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them
- 8
A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway
hyde
- 1
Alternative form of hide (area of land)
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, hide or hyde?
hide appears 35 times per million words; hyde 5.0 times per million words.
hide 35 times per million wordshyde 5.0 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search hide vs hyde?
“hide vs hyde” is searched about 70 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“hyde vs hide”, “hide or hyde”).
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