hoard
/hɔɹd/noun, verb
hoard is spelled H-O-A-R-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “hoard vs horde” about 2,400 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, hoard means “A hidden supply or fund” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hoard is hoards.
How many letters and syllables are in hoard?
| Letters | 5: H-O-A-R-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,516th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is hoard?
Hoard appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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 hoard?
- US /hɔɹd/
- UK /hɔːd/
- /ho(ː)ɹd/
Hoard 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-hoard.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with hoard
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: horde (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with hoard?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hoard from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹd/):
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 hoard
- hoards plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- hoarding participle, present
- hoarded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hoard mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A hidden supply or fund.
a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money
- 2
A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
- 3
A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
- 4
A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
- 5
A hoarding (billboard).
verb
- 1
To amass, usually for one's own private collection.
- 2
To save or reserve in one's mind for a future need or use.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hoard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | magot , trésor , accumuler, amasser, thésauriser |
| German | Hort, Vorrat , horten |
| Spanish | acaparamiento, guardado , tesoro (arqueológico) , acaparar |
| Portuguese | tesouro , acumular |
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 hoard come from?
From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀd, from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), of unknown origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *kewdʰ- (“to conceal, hide”), thus meaning “something hidden”. Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”). For the meaning development, compare Russian сокро́вище (sokróvišče, “treasure”) related to Russian скрыва́ть (skryvátʹ, “to hide, to conceal”
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).