rode
/ɹoʊd/verb, noun
rode is spelled R-O-D-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “road vs rode” about 320 times a month (Google, United States). As a verb, rode means “Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in rode?
| Letters | 4: R-O-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.1 times per million words; the 8,146th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| 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); 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 common is rode?
Rode appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th 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 rode?
- UK /ɹəʊd/
- US /ɹoʊd/
- /rod/
Rode 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)-Pvanp7-rode.wav, En-us-rode.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with rode
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: rowed (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: road.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with rode?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as rode from its last stressed vowel (/oʊd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: redo, doer, dero, roed.
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 rode
- rodes present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- roding participle, present
- roded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does rode mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.
- 2
simple past of ride
- 3
colloquialnonstandardpast participle of ride
noun
- 1
The line from a vessel to its anchor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).