scrod
/skɹɑd/noun, verb
scrod is spelled S-C-R-O-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, scrod means “Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of scrod is scrods.
How many letters and syllables are in scrod?
| Letters | 5: S-C-R-O-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 scrod?
Scrod appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 scrod?
- US /skɹɑd/
- UK /skɹɒd/
Scrod 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-scrod.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with scrod?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as scrod from its last stressed vowel (/ɑd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cords.
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 scrod
- scrods plural
- schrod
- escrod
- scrode
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does scrod mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish.
verb
- 1
To shred.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does scrod come from?
One theory derives it from scrawed, past participle of Cornwall dialect scraw (“to split and dry fish”), but the further origin of this word seems not to have been traced. Another theory derives it from an obsolete Dutch term: either from schrood (“slice, shred”), from Middle Dutch schrode, schroode, referring to the splitting of the fish; or alternatively from the related schrot (“inferior product, cull”), the scrod being originally a cod too small for filleting. In both of these cases, the word is ultimately cognate to shred.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).