rid

Other forms of rid

past tense or participle

ridded

present participle

ridding

third person

rids·

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 rid

What does rid mean?

rid means "relieve from".

How many syllables are in rid?

rid has 1 syllable: rid. In IPA it is /ˈɹɪd/.

What is another word for rid?

Close synonyms include free, disembarrass. 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 rid a common word?

rid is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.