raid
/ɹeɪd/noun, verb
raid is spelled R-A-I-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, raid means “A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of raid is raids.
How many letters and syllables are in raid?
| Letters | 4: R-A-I-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,206th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is raid?
Raid appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th 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 raid?
- /ɹeɪd/
Raid 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-raid.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with raid?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as raid.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: arid, dari, riad, dira.
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 raid
- raids plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- rade
- raiding participle, present
- raided participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does raid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
- 2
An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
a police raid of a narcotics factory
- 3
An attacking movement.
- 4
An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
- 5
A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
- 6
An event involving a group of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.
verb
- 1
To engage in a raid against.
The police raided the gambling den.
- 2
To lure from another; to entice away from.
- 3
To indulge oneself by taking from.
I raided the fridge for snacks.
noun
- 1
Acronym of Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks.
- 2
Initialism of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Raid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | correría, razia, raid, rebato , redada, allanamiento |
| French | raid, razzia, descente, rafle |
| German | Razzia, Überfall , überfallen |
| Portuguese | invasão, ataque, busca |
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 raid come from?
From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).