baud
/bɔd/noun
baud is spelled B-A-U-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 64,400th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, baud means “A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of baud is bauds.
How many letters and syllables are in baud?
| Letters | 4: B-A-U-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 64,400th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is baud?
Baud appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 64,400th 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 baud?
- UK /bɔːd/
- US /bɔd/
- /bɑd/
Baud 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)-Vealhurl-baud.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with baud
Sounds like: bawd, board, bored (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with baud?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as baud from its last stressed vowel (/ɔd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: daub.
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 baud
- bauds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does baud mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
- 2
informalbps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Baud in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second:
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 baud come from?
Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).