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evade

/ɪˈveɪd/verb

evade is spelled E-V-A-D-E: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, evade means “To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in evade?

Letters5: E-V-A-D-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.5 times per million words; the 17,342nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is evade?

Evade appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd 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 evade?

  • /ɪˈveɪd/

Evade has 2 syllables (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)-Mélange_a_trois-evade.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of evade

  • evades present, singular, he/she/it
  • evading participle, present
  • evaded participle, past

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

What does evade mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.

    He evaded his opponent's blows.

  2. 2

    To escape; to slip away; – sometimes with from.

  3. 3

    To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

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

Evade in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchesquiver (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude), s'évader (to escape or slip away)
Germanausweichen (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude), meiden (to escape or slip away), sich entziehen (to attempt to escape)
Spanishevadir, soslayar, dar esquinazo, burlar (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude)

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 evade come from?

From Middle French évader, from Latin ēvādō (“to pass or go over; flee”), from ē (“out of, from”) + vādō (“to go; walk”). See also wade.

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

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