# lode

> English word · Noun · IPA /ləʊd/ · frequency rank #41,231

## Definitions
1. A way or path; a road.
2. A watercourse.
3. A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
4. A rich source of supply.

## Etymology
Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.

## Easily confused with
- **lot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-lot)
- **low** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-low)
- **lol** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-lol)
- **los** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-los)
- **log** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-log)
- **Lou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-lou)
- **loo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-loo)
- **LSD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-lsd)
- **Lon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-lon)
- **lor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-lor)
- **lye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-lye)
- **lop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-lop)
- **lox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-lox)
- **loy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-loy)
- **Loh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-loh)
- **love** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-love)
- **long** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-long)
- **look** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-look)
- **lost** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-lost)
- **lord** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lode-vs-lord)

## Common misspellings (3)
`ldoe`, `llode`, `lodde`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/lode