aide
/eɪd/noun
aide is spelled A-I-D-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “aid vs aide” about 9,900 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, aide means “An assistant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of aide is aides.
How many letters and syllables are in aide?
| Letters | 4: A-I-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.9 times per million words; the 11,373rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is aide?
Aide appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd 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 aide?
- UK /eɪd/
Aide 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)-Vininn126-aide.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with aide
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: aid (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: aid.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with aide?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as aide from its last stressed vowel (/eɪd/, British pronunciation):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: idea.
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 aide
- aides plural
- aid
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does aide mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An assistant.
- 2
An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does aide come from?
Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).