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pod

/ˈpɑd/noun, verb

pod is spelled P-O-D: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pod means “A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pod is pods.

How many letters and syllables are in pod?

Letters3: P-O-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.1 times per million words; the 11,015th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 pod?

Pod appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th 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 pod?

  • UK /ˈpɒd/
  • US /ˈpɑd/

Pod 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-pod.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-pod.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with pod?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: dop.

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 pod

  • pods plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • podding participle, present
  • podded participle, past

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

What does pod mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.

  2. 2

    A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.

  3. 3

    A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations; see escape pod.

    Near-synonym: escape pod

  4. 4

    A nicotine cartridge.

  5. 5

    UKobsoleteA bag; a pouch.

  6. 6

    A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.

  7. 7

    A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.

  8. 8

    A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.

verb

  1. 1

    To bear or produce pods

  2. 2

    To remove peas from their case.

  3. 3

    To put into a pod or to enter a pod.

  4. 4

    To swell or fill.

noun

as POD
  1. 1

    Initialism of print on demand.

  2. 2

    Initialism of proof of delivery.

  3. 3

    Initialism of plain old data.

  4. 4

    Initialism of point of divergence.

  5. 5

    Initialism of place of death.

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

Pod in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcosse, gousse (seed case), nacelle (small vehicle), écosser (To remove peas from their case), -pode (related to or resembling a foot)
GermanSchote, Hülse, Kapsel (seed case), Rettungskapsel, Kabine (small vehicle), Schule (group of whales or similar mammals)
Portuguesevagem (seed case), cápsula (small vehicle), -pode (related to or resembling a foot)
Spanishvaina, capi (seed case), cápsula (small vehicle), -podo (related to or resembling a foot), manada (group of whales or similar mammals)

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 pod come from?

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”).

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

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