adz
/ædz/noun, verb
adz is spelled A-D-Z: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, adz means “Alternative spelling of adze” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of adz is adzes.
How many letters and syllables are in adz?
| Letters | 3: A-D-Z |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 19 million words; the 131,834th 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 adz?
Adz appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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 adz?
- /ædz/
Adz 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-adz.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-adze.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with adz
Sounds like: ads (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with adz?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as adz.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: zad.
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).
Forms of adz
- adzes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- adzing participle, present
- adzed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does adz mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
USAlternative spelling of adze.
verb
- 1
USAlternative spelling of adze.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).