loads
/loʊdz/noun, adverb, verb
loads is spelled L-O-A-D-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, loads means “plural of load” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in loads?
| Letters | 5: L-O-A-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,934th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 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).
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).
What rhymes with loads?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as loads from its last stressed vowel (/oʊdz/):
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 loads mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
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).
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.