horde

Other forms of horde

plural

hordes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about horde

What does horde mean?

horde means "a vast multitude". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in horde?

horde has 1 syllable: horde. In IPA it is /ˈhɔɹd/.

What is another word for horde?

Close synonyms include host, legion, drove, swarm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is horde a common word?

horde is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with horde?

1 word rhymes with horde. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.