hode
/hoʊd/obsolete
hode is a verb meaning “To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-D-E, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hode mean?
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hode?
- UK /həʊd/
- US /hoʊd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-hode.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hode
- hodes present, singular, he/she/it
- hoding participle, present
- hoded participle, past
- had
- hade
- haid
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hode?
Hode appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).
Where does hode come from?
From Middle English hoden, hodien, from Old English hādian (“to ordain, consecrate”), from Old English hād (“rank, order, office, holy office”). More at hade (“state, order, rank”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).