hade
/heɪd/noun, verb
hade is spelled H-A-D-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 90,432nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hade means “State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hade is hades.
How many letters and syllables are in hade?
| Letters | 4: H-A-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words; the 90,432nd 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 hade?
Hade appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 90,432nd 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 hade?
- US /heɪd/
- /hed/
Hade 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-hade.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with hade?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hade from its last stressed vowel (/eɪd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: head.
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 hade
- hades plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- had
- haid
- hod
- hode
- hading participle, present
- haded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hade mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
ScotlandState; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
- 2
A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother shades, And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades The daintie Clover growes (of grass the onely silke)
- 3
UKobsoleteA headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
… certeine arable landes some of them havinge hades of meadow and grasse grounde lieinge in the Southe fielde of Einsham.
verb
- 1
To slope or incline from the vertical.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does hade come from?
From Middle English hade, had, hod, hed, from Old English hād (“person, individual, character, individuality, degree, rank, order, office, holy office, condition, state, nature, character, form, manner, sex, race, family, tribe, choir”), from Proto-West Germanic *haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“appearance, kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kāy- (“light, bright, shining”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).