Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ide

/aɪd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English

Syllables: ide
IPA: /aɪd/

4

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.

noun

Initialism of insulin-degrading enzyme.

Countable

noun

Initialism of integrated development environment.

Countable

noun

Initialism of integrated drive electronics.

Uncountable

name

A surname transferred from the given name.

name

A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, named after Saint Ida (OS grid ref SX8990).

contraction

Obsolete form of I'd.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’"
"Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]"

Etymology

Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: idus, id

Usage

Inflected Forms

ides (plural) id (alternative)

Phrases

Ide Hill

Frequently Paired Words

ides Ide Hill

Synonyms

orfe silver orfe

Homonyms

eyed I'd -ide

Rhymes With

side outside died inside side-by-side tried provide wide ride decide guide applied

Questions

How do you pronounce ide?: The recorded pronunciation is /aɪd/.
What does ide mean?: A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
Where does ide come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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