loads
/loʊdz/noun, adverb, verb
loads is a noun meaning “plural of load” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-A-D-S and has one syllable, and it appears 17 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does loads mean?
noun
- 1
plural of load
adverb
- 1
UKcolloquialLots, much, plenty, a great deal.
The price of living is loads less expensive in Thailand than in Singapore
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of load
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce loads?
- UK /ləʊdz/
- US /loʊdz/
Loads has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-loads.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is loads?
Loads appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Loads in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | a granel |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.