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mood

/muːd/noun, interjection

mood is spelled M-O-O-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “mood vs tone” about 12,100 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, mood means “A mental or emotional state, composure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mood is moods.

How many letters and syllables are in mood?

Letters4: M-O-O-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing28 times per million words; the 3,364th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
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 mood?

Mood appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th 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 mood?

  • /muːd/
  • /mʉd/

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

Words people confuse with mood

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

mood vs tone12,100 G

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with mood?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: doom.

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 mood

  • moods plural

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

What does mood mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A mental or emotional state, composure.

    I've been in a bad mood since I was dumped by my ex-boyfriend.

  2. 2

    Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).

  3. 3

    A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

    He's in a mood with me today.

  4. 4

    A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

    I'm not in the mood for running today.

  5. 5

    A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.

    A good politician senses the mood of the crowd.

  6. 6

    slangA familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

  7. 7

    A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

    The mood most frequently encountered in English is the indicative, of which the mood in this sentence is an example.

interjection

  1. 1

    slangUsed to express that the speaker finds something very relatable.

    ⁠–I am feeling very exhausted today. ⁠–Mood.

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

How do you abbreviate mood?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of mood: TMA.

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

Mood in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchhumeur (mental state), mauvaise humeur, cafard (bad mood), atmosphère (prevalent atmosphere)
GermanGemüt, Stimmung, Laune (mental state), schlechte Laune, üble Laune, Missmut (bad mood)
Portuguesehumor (mental state), mau humor (bad mood), clima (prevalent atmosphere)
Spanishhumor m ánimo, estado de ánimo, tesitura (mental state), mal humor, mal genio (bad mood), ánimo (disposition – see also in the mood)

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 mood come from?

From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English mōd (“mind,” in poetry also “heart, spirit, courage”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”), from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁-, *meh₁- (“endeavour, will, temper”).

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

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