shide
/ʃaɪd/obsolete
shide is spelled S-H-I-D-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shide means “A piece of wood (a thin board or plank, or a strip of wood split off); a measure of firewood, variously defined as e.g. four feet long and between 16…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shide is shides.
How many letters and syllables are in shide?
| Letters | 5: S-H-I-D-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 91 million words; the 305,310th 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; 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 shide?
Shide appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 shide?
- /ʃaɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with shide?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as shide.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sidhe, deshi.
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).
What does shide mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteA piece of wood (a thin board or plank, or a strip of wood split off); a measure of firewood, variously defined as e.g. four feet long and between 16 and 38 inches in circumference.
And [although] by the true intente of the said Statue everie Bende of Faggot should be Three Foote, […] the said evill disposed people doe [make] the saide Bendes or Faggots stickes much shorter, […] And that everie Tall Shide marked Two, b
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does shide come from?
From Middle English schyd, schide, schyde (“plank, board, beam, splinter, chip”), from Old English sċīd (“thin slip of wood, shingle, billet”), from Proto-West Germanic *skīd, from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, plank, tile”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt-, *skey- (“to cut; divide; separate; split”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).