aids
/eɪdz/noun, verb
aids is spelled A-I-D-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, aids means “plural of aid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in aids?
| Letters | 4: A-I-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,667th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 aids?
Aids appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th 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 aids?
- US /eɪdz/
Aids 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-uk-AIDS.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with aids?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as aids from its last stressed vowel (/eɪdz/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: said, dais, sida.
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 aids mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of aid
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of aid
noun
- 1
Acronym of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
adjective
- 1
offensiveslangvulgarExtremely annoying or frustrating.
Dude, this game is so fucking AIDS.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Aids in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense acquired immunodeficiency syndrome – see also acquired immunodeficiency syndrome:
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.