parade
/pəˈɹeɪd/noun, verb
parade is spelled P-A-R-A-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is perade: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 286 of all searches for the word. Parade is a noun meaning “Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or…”. The plural of parade is parades.
How many letters and syllables are in parade?
| Letters | 6: P-A-R-A-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, perade, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 parade?
Parade is spelled P-A-R-A-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 284 of the searches for parade 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 parade?
Parade appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th 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 parade?
- /pəˈɹeɪd/
As a noun (“Synonym of parry in both its literal and figurative senses”): /pəˈrɑd/, /pəˈrɑːd/.
Parade has 2 syllables (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-parade.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with parade?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as parade from its last stressed vowel (/ɑd/):
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 parade
- parades plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- parad
- parading participle, present
- paraded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does parade mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.
See how the Flow’rs, as at Parade, Under their Colours stand displaid: Each Regiment in order grows, That of the Tulip Pinke and Rose.
- 2
A public procession, especially one commemorating a holiday or special event or (dated) in protest.
They went up with a Parade of 9 or 10 Coaches.
- 3
Synonym of gaggle: A group of geese when on the move, particularly a line of goslings shepherded by one or more adults.
- 4
Synonym of herd: A group of elephants when on the move.
- 5
Synonym of parade ground: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills.
- 6
datedSynonym of promenade: A route, street, or square frequented by pedestrians or formerly used for military parades.
Glasgow's most fashionable Sunday parade, the ‘crawl’ on Great Western-road.
- 7
Synonym of road, used in place names.
His shop is located in Chester Pde.
- 8
The people who make up such a display, particularly
- 9
Synonym of parry in both its literal and figurative senses.
...in case the adversary after a finda, going to the parade, discover his brest to caveat...
verb
- 1
To assemble for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
- 2
To march impressively or ostentatiously.
No one fights a war in close-order formations any more but officers still love to force their men to parade, coming up with various plausible excuses for their enjoyment of command.
- 3
To march past.
After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.
- 4
To march through or along.
- 5
Synonym of promenade: to walk up and down, especially in public in order to show off and be seen by others.
- 6
To move slowly through or among.
- 7
To walk in a row led by one parent, often trailed by the other.
- 8
To assemble soldiers for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate parade?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of parade: Pde.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Parade in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | parade, défilé , étalage |
| German | Parade, Aufmarsch, Umzug , Folge, Abfolge |
| Portuguese | parada, desfile |
| Spanish | desfile, paseíllo , desfilar |
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 parade come from?
From French parade (“an ostentatious display, a military display”), from parer (“to beautify, prepare, take pride in”) + -ade probably under influence from earlier Italian parata (“preparation, a military parade, an ostentatious display”) and Latin magnō parātū (“with great preparation”). Various senses similarly influenced by earlier French and Italian uses. Doublet of pare.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).