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maid

/meɪd/noun, verb

maid is spelled M-A-I-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “made vs maid” about 30 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, maid means “A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of maid is maids.

How many letters and syllables are in maid?

Letters4: M-A-I-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.2 times per million words; the 8,784th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Rhymes with
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 common is maid?

Maid appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th 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 maid?

  • US /meɪd/
  • /med/
  • /meid/

Maid 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-made.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with maid

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

made vs maid30 G

Sounds like: made (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 maid?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as maid from its last stressed vowel (/eɪd/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: amid, diam.

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 maid

  • maids plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • maiding participle, present
  • maided participle, past

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

What does maid mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    datedA girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

  2. 2

    An adult or adolescent female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). (In feudal times this could be anyone from a high-ranking assistant to a low-ranking cleaner.)

  3. 3

    archaicA virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.

noun

as MAID
  1. 1

    CanadaUSAcronym of medical assistance in dying.

  2. 2

    Acronym of mobile advertising ID.

noun

as MAiD
  1. 1

    CanadaAlternative form of MAID (“medical assistance in dying”).

verb

  1. 1

    rareTo serve as lady's maid to, to wait upon.

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

Maid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdemoiselle, jeune fille (young female), bonne, bonne à tout faire, domestique, servante (female servant or cleaner)
GermanMädchen (young female), Stubenmädchen (female servant or cleaner)
Portuguesedonzela, moça (young female), empregada, servente, doméstica (female servant or cleaner)
Spanishdoncella, señorita (young female), doméstica, empleada doméstica, muchacha de servicio, asesora del hogar (female servant or cleaner)

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 maid come from?

From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of Middle English maiden from Old English mæġden (Old English mǣden). Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“girl, virgin”).

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

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