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abode

/əˈboʊd/noun, verb

abode is spelled A-B-O-D-E: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, abode means “Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of abode is abodes.

How many letters and syllables are in abode?

Letters5: A-B-O-D-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 24,463rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is abode?

Abode appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,463rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce abode?

  • UK /əˈbəʊd/
  • US /əˈboʊd/
  • US [ʔəˈboʊːd̥̚]

Abode has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-abode.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with abode?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as abode from its last stressed vowel (/oʊd/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: adobe.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of abode

  • abodes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • aboding participle, present
  • aboded participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does abode mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteAct of waiting; delay.

  2. 2

    datedStay or continuance in a place; sojourn.

  3. 3

    A residence, dwelling or habitation.

    of no fixed abode

  4. 4

    obsoleteAn omen; a foretelling.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of abide (a form of abide)

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo bode; to foreshow; to presage.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo be ominous.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Abode in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanVerweilen, Warten (obsolete: act of waiting), Aufenthalt (stay or continuance in a place; sojourn), Bleibe, Wohnung (slightly dated: residence)
Portugueseespera, atraso, aguardar (obsolete: act of waiting), permanência (stay or continuance in a place; sojourn), residência, domicílio (slightly dated: residence)
Frenchdemeure (slightly dated: residence)
Spanishcasalicio (slightly dated: residence)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does abode come from?

From Middle English abod, abad, from Old English *ābād, related to ābīdan (“to abide”); see abide. Cognate with Scots abade, abaid (“abode”). For the change of nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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