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say it: spayd
spade is a noun and verb meaning "a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it". It is pronounced /ˈspeɪd/ — spayd. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
“she led a low spade”
“spades were trumps”
a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spade come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.