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ide

/aɪd/noun

ide is spelled I-D-E: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ide means “A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ide is ides.

How many letters and syllables are in ide?

Letters3: I-D-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.4 times per million words; the 24,170th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
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 ide?

Ide appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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 ide?

  • /aɪd/

Ide 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)-Yangolin-ide.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame--ide.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with ide

Sounds like: I'd, eyed (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: id.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with ide?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ide.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: die, dei, eid.

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 ide

  • ides plural
  • id

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

What does ide mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.

noun

as IDE
  1. 1

    Initialism of insulin-degrading enzyme.

  2. 2

    Initialism of integrated development environment.

  3. 3

    Initialism of integrated drive electronics.

noun

as ideæ
  1. 1

    rareplural of idea (a form of idea)

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

Ide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanAland (fish), -id (any of a group of related compounds), -oid (any of a group of several elements)
French-ide (any of a group of related compounds), -ure (binary compound of a nonmetal)
Portuguese-ídio, -ídeo (any of a group of related compounds), -oide (any of a group of several elements), -eto (binary compound of a nonmetal)
Spanish-ido (any of a group of related compounds), -uro (binary compound of a nonmetal)

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 ide come from?

Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.

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

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