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gourd

/ɡʊɚd/noun

gourd is spelled G-O-U-R-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,176th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gourd means “Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gourd is gourds.

How many letters and syllables are in gourd?

Letters5: G-O-U-R-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 36,176th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 gourd?

Gourd appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,176th 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 gourd?

  • /ɡʊəd/
  • /ɡɔːd/
  • US /ɡʊɚd/

Gourd 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-gourd.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with gourd?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as gourd from its last stressed vowel (/ʊəɹd/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: groud.

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 gourd

  • gourds plural

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

What does gourd mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).

  2. 2

    A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.

  3. 3

    The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.

  4. 4

    obsoleteAny of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins, and cucumbers.

  5. 5

    informalLoaded dice.

  6. 6

    slangA person's head.

    I got so stoned last night. I was out of my gourd.

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

Gourd in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Portuguesecabaceira, cuieira (vine), cabaça, cuia (fruit), porongo (dried and hardened shell of a gourd fruit)
Spanishgüiro, guash, jicalpestle, jicalpextle (jicalpeshtle), pipián, pumpo (vine)
Frenchcalebasse (fruit)
GermanFlaschenkürbis, Kalebasse (fruit), Rübe, Birne (slang: head)

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 gourd come from?

From Middle English gourde, from Anglo-Norman gurde, gourde, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of cucurbit.

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

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