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blade

/bleɪd/noun, verb

blade is spelled B-L-A-D-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blade means “The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blade is blades.

How many letters and syllables are in blade?

Letters5: B-L-A-D-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing15 times per million words; the 5,206th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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 blade?

Blade appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th 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 blade?

  • /bleɪd/

Blade 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: En-us-blade.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with blade?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as blade.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: abled.

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 blade

  • blades plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • blading participle, present
  • bladed participle, past

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

What does blade mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.

  2. 2

    A sword or knife.

  3. 3

    Ellipsis of razor blade.

  4. 4

    The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.

  5. 5

    The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.

  6. 6

    The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).

  7. 7

    A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.

  8. 8

    A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo skate on rollerblades.

    Want to go blading with me later in the park?

  2. 2

    To furnish with a blade.

  3. 3

    To put forth or have a blade.

  4. 4

    To stab with a blade

    The gang member got bladed in a fight.

  5. 5

    slangTo cut a person (usually oneself) so as to provoke bleeding.

noun

as Blade
  1. 1

    Someone connected with Sheffield United Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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

Blade in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchlame (typically sharp-edged working end of a knife or…), brin (narrow leaf of a grass or cereal)
GermanKlinge (typically sharp-edged working end of a knife or…), Grashalm (narrow leaf of a grass or cereal), Turbinenschaufel (airfoil in windmills and windturbines), Blatt (thin plate, foil)
Portugueselâmina, fio, gume (typically sharp-edged working end of a knife or…), pá, aleta (flat, functional end of a tool or utensil, such…)
Spanishcuchilla, hoja (typically sharp-edged working end of a knife or…), pala, aleta (flat, functional end of a tool or utensil, such…), cuchillo, espada (a weapon such as a dagger)

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 blade come from?

From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”).

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

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