ads
/ædz/noun
ads is spelled A-D-S: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,153rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ads means “plural of ad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in ads?
| Letters | 3: A-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 21 times per million words; the 4,153rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is ads?
Ads appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,153rd 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).
How do you pronounce ads?
- /ædz/
Ads 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-us-adds.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with ads
Sounds like: adze (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with ads?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ads.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sad, das.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does ads mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of ad
noun
- 1
Initialism of automated decision support.
- 2
Initialism of automatic dependent surveillance.
- 3
Initialism of adult-directed speech.
- 4
Initialism of air defense/defence ship
phrase
- 1
Initialism of aim down sights.
adjective
- 1
Initialism of anti de Sitter.
noun
- 1
plural of Ad
noun
- 1
plural of AD
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).