pood
/puːd/noun
pood is a noun meaning “An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-O-D, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pood is poods.
What does pood mean?
noun
- 1
An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).
- 2
A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pood?
- /puːd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pood.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pood
- poods plural
- poud
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pood?
Pood appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).
Pood in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Russian unit of mass:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | poud |
| German | Pud |
| Portuguese | pud |
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 pood come from?
From Russian пуд (pud). Doublet of funt, pfund, pound, and punt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).