node
/noʊd/noun
node is spelled N-O-D-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.6 times per million words in written English, the 8,542nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, node means “A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of node is nodes.
How many letters and syllables are in node?
| Letters | 4: N-O-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.6 times per million words; the 8,542nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is node?
Node appears 7.6 times per million words in written English, the 8,542nd 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 node?
- UK /nəʊd/
- US /noʊd/
Node 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)-Vealhurl-node.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with node?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as node from its last stressed vowel (/oʊd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: done, endo, onde.
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 node
- nodes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does node mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- 2
The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- 3
A leaf node.
- 4
A computer or other device attached to a network.
- 5
The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- 6
The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- 7
A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
- 8
A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Node in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 node come from?
From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).