stade
/steɪd/noun
stade is spelled S-T-A-D-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,154th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stade means “Synonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stade is stades.
How many letters and syllables are in stade?
| Letters | 5: S-T-A-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 41,154th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| 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 stade?
Stade appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,154th 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 stade?
- /steɪd/
- /sted/
Stade 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).
Words people confuse with stade
Sounds like: staid (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with stade?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as stade.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: stead, sated.
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 stade
- stades plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stade mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Synonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
- 2
datedA track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.
- 3
obsoletein a journey.
- 4
obsoleteof a disease.
- 5
in glaciation during which a secondary advance of the glaciers occurs.
- 6
A unit of length notionally based on the height of a grown man, equivalent to a fathom.
- 7
obsoleteSynonym of estadio: a traditional Spanish unit of measure equivalent to about 1.67 m.
- 8
obsoleterareA chief town in an area or country.
- 9
obsoleteFabric or textiles from or similar to those of Stade.
- 10
obsoleteA station for ships, as an anchorage or wharf.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does stade come from?
From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), a 600-foot racetrack, a distance of 600 Greek feet. Cognate with French stade. Doublet of stadium, stadion, and estadio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).