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Yes. The word rode is a Scrabble US word. The word rode is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (6 found)

DERO,DOER,DORE,REDO,RODE,ROED,

3-letter words (9 found)

DOE,DOR,ODE,ORD,ORE,RED,REO,ROD,ROE,

2-letter words (8 found)

DE,DO,ED,ER,OD,OE,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from rode according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of rode

rode orde rdoe droe odre dore roed ored reod erod oerd eord rdeo dreo redo erdo dero edro oder doer oedr eodr deor edor

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Definitions and meaning of rode

rode

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: rōd, IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊd/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rōd, IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊd/
  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /rod/
  • Rhymes: -əʊd
  • Homophones: Rhode, road (general), rowed (except Scotland)

Etymology 1

Verb

rode

  1. simple past of ride
  2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of ride

Etymology 2

Verb

rode (third-person singular simple present rodes, present participle roding, simple past and past participle roded)

  1. (ornithology) Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.

Etymology 3

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

  1. (nautical) The line from a vessel to its anchor.
Synonyms
  • warp
Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

  1. Obsolete form of road.

Anagrams

  • Dore, EDRO, Oder, dero, doer, orde, redo, roed

Alemannic German

Pronunciation

  • (Zurich) IPA(key): /ˈrodə/

Verb

rode (third-person singular simple present rodt, past participle grodt, auxiliary haa)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to move, stir
    • 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ’s Heiwili, I.5:
      Äs stoht im Stubli, rod't si nüd.

References

  • Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 35.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrodɛ]

Noun

rode

  1. vocative singular of rod

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /roːdə/, [ˈʁoːðə]

Noun

rode c (singular definite roden, plural indefinite roder)

  1. (military) file
  2. tax collector's district

Declension

Verb

rode (imperative rod, infinitive at rode, present tense roder, past tense rodede, perfect tense har rodet)

  1. to mess up (make a physical mess of)
  2. to rummage, to root

References

  • “rode” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • rooie

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈroː.də/

Adjective

rode

  1. inflection of rood:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

Anagrams

  • orde

French

Verb

rode

  1. inflection of roder:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • dore, doré

Galician

Verb

rode

  1. inflection of rodar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

rode

  1. inflection of roden:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Anagrams

  • oder

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈroːrə/

Verb

rode

  1. to guess

Further reading

  • Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Italian

Verb

rode

  1. third-person singular present indicative of rodere

Anagrams

  • -edro, orde, redo

Latin

Verb

rōde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of rōdō

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English rōd, from Proto-West Germanic *rōdu, from Proto-Germanic *rōdō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

Alternative forms

  • rod, rood, roude, rud, rude

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈroːd(ə)/
  • Rhymes: -oːd

Noun

rode (plural rodes or roden)

  1. A cross or gibbet
  2. The cross on which Christ was crucified, and derived uses such as:
    1. A crucifix
    2. Christlike torment, suffering, or tribulation, as in "an oðer rode to berene" (another cross to bear)
  3. A rod, pole, or bar
  4. A quarter of an acre; a rood
  5. In place names: a woodland clearing.
Descendants
  • English: rood
  • Scots: rude, ruid
  • English: Rhode, Rhodes
References
  • “rọ̄de, n.(5).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
  • “road, Etymology, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2023.
  • Hanks, Patrick (2022) Dictionary of American Family Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, s.v. Rhode (no pagination)
  • Room, Adrian (1988) Dictionary of place-names in the British Isles, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, s.v. Blackrod(p. 42)
  • Joseph Bosworth (1921) Thomas Northcote Toller, editor, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Supplement, Oxford: Clarendon Press, s.v. rōd(pp. 689–690)

Etymology 2

From Old English rād, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

Alternative forms

  • rade, rod, rood, roode

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔːd(ə)/

Noun

rode (plural rodes or roden)

  1. ride, journey, voyage
  2. harbour, roadstead
Related terms
  • brandreth
Descendants
  • English: road
  • Scots: raid
    • → English: raid, rade
      • → Spanish: raid
      • → French: raid
      • → Italian: raid
      • → Polish: rajd
      • → Romanian: raid
      • → Swedish: räd
  • → Old French: *rade
    • Middle French: rade
      • French: rade
        • → Catalan: rada
        • → Italian: rada
        • → Spanish: rada
References
  • “rōde, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Etymology 3

From Old English rudu.

Alternative forms

  • rodde, roode, rud, rudde

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrud(ə)/, /ˈroːd(ə)/

Noun

rode (plural rodes or roden)

  1. ruddiness, redness
  2. face, appearance, visage
  3. Pot marigold, calendula (Calendula officinalis)
Related terms
  • rody
  • ruddok
  • ruden
Descendants
  • English: rud
  • Scots: rud, rudd
References
  • “rōde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
  • “rōde, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Etymology 4

From Old English ġerād, rād.

Alternative forms

  • rad

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɔːd/

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

  1. (rare) reckoning, judgement, account
References
  • “rōde, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Etymology 5

Noun

rode (plural roddes)

  1. Alternative form of rodde (“rod”)

Etymology 6

From Old English hreod.

Noun

rode (plural rodes)

  1. reed, a reedy place
Descendants
  • English: Rhude
  • English: Rudd

References

  • Hanks, Patrick (2022) Dictionary of American Family Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, s.v. Rhode (no pagination)
  • Hanks, Patrick (2022) Dictionary of American Family Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, s.v. Rudd (no pagination)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse roti m, from Middle Low German.

Noun

rode f (definite singular roda, indefinite plural roder, definite plural rodene)

  1. (military) soldiers standing in a specific relation to each other in specific formations

Etymology 2

From Old Norse roða.

Alternative forms

  • roda (a and split infinitives)

Verb

rode (present tense rodar, past tense roda, past participle roda, passive infinitive rodast, present participle rodande, imperative rode/rod)

  1. (intransitive) to shine reddish, to be red
  2. (transitive) to make red
  3. (by extension, archaic) to glaze baked goods (with raw egg yolk or milk or similar) before putting into oven

References

  • “rode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German raten, Dutch raden, English read.

Verb

rode

  1. to advise, to counsel
  2. to guess

Plautdietsch

Verb

rode

  1. to guess
  2. to advise, to suggest

Portuguese

Verb

rode

  1. inflection of rodar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

  1. vocative singular of rod

Noun

rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

  1. inflection of roda:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

  1. third-person plural present of roditi

Venetian

Noun

rode

  1. plural of roda

Source: wiktionary.org