laid
/leɪd/adjective, verb
laid is spelled L-A-I-D. The wrong spelling people search most is layed: about 770 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 4 in 10 of all searches for the word. Laid is an adjective meaning “Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould”.
How many letters and syllables are in laid?
| Letters | 4: L-A-I-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 36 times per million words; the 2,669th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, layed, about 770 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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 do you spell laid?
Laid is spelled L-A-I-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 4 in 10 of the searches for laid in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is laid?
Laid appears 36 times per million words in written English, the 2,669th 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 laid?
- /leɪd/
Laid 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-laid.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with laid?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as laid.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: dial.
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).
What does laid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of lay
- 2
colloquialsimple past and past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Laid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of paper: ribbed with wires:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vergé |
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.