adze
/ædz/noun, verb
adze is spelled A-D-Z-E: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, adze means “A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of adze is adzes.
How many letters and syllables are in adze?
| Letters | 4: A-D-Z-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th 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; 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 adze?
Adze appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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 adze?
- /ædz/
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, En-us-adds.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with adze
Sounds like: ads (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with adze?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as adze.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: daze.
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 adze
- adzes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- adz US
- 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 adze mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
verb
- 1
To shape a material using an adze.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Adze in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cutting tool:
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.
Where does adze come from?
From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa (compare the oldest forms: adosa, adosan), assumed from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).