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ade

/ˈeɪd/noun

ade is a noun meaning “A drink made from a fruit, especially a fizzy one” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-D-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ade is ades.

What does ade mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A drink made from a fruit, especially a fizzy one.

noun

as ADE
  1. 1

    Initialism of adverse drug effect.

  2. 2

    Initialism of antibody-dependent enhancement.

  3. 3

    Initialism of Australian disability enterprise (“a form of sheltered workshop”).

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

How do you pronounce ade?

  • /ˈeɪd/

Ade has one syllable (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-ade.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of ade

  • ades plural

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

How common is ade?

Ade appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th 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).

Words people confuse with ade

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

ade vs aid0 B

Sounds like: aid, aide (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Ade in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense forms nouns denoting action:

LanguageWords
Portuguese-ada

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 ade come from?

Back-formation from lemonade, orangeade, etc.

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