bride
/bɹaɪd/noun
bride is spelled B-R-I-D-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bride means “A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bride is brides.
How many letters and syllables are in bride?
| Letters | 5: B-R-I-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,230th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 bride?
Bride appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th 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 bride?
- UK /bɹaɪd/
- /bɹɛɪd/
- /bɾʌɪd/
Bride 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-bride.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bride.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with bride?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bride from its last stressed vowel (/aɪd/, British pronunciation):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: rebid.
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 bride
- brides plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- briding participle, present
- brided participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bride mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
- 2
obsoleteAn object ardently loved.
- 3
an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework
verb
- 1
obsoleteto make a bride of
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bride in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense woman in the context of her own wedding:
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 bride come from?
From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).