# skid

> English word · Noun · IPA /skɪd/ · frequency rank #20,227

## Definitions
1. An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
2. A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
3. A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
4. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
5. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
6. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
7. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
8. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
9. A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
10. A losing streak.

## Etymology
From Middle English *skid, from Old Norse skíð (“a billet of wood, a beam or plank on which something rests”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, clapboard”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey-t-, *skey- (“to split, divide, separate”). Cognate with English shide, from Middle English schyd, schyde, schide (“plank, beam”), German Scheit (“piece of wood, log”). Doublet of ski.

## Easily confused with
- **sky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-sky)
- **STD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-std)
- **SPD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-spd)
- **sod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-sod)
- **SSD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-ssd)
- **Syd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-syd)
- **STI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-sti)
- **Sui** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-sui)
- **SSI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-ssi)
- **soi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-soi)
- **sud** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-sud)
- **sold** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-sold)
- **skin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-skin)
- **suit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-suit)
- **soil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-soil)
- **spin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-spin)
- **slip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-slip)
- **skip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-skip)
- **swim** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-swim)
- **slim** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skid-vs-slim)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ksid`, `sikd`, `skdi`, `skidd`, `skkid`, `sskid`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/skid