olds
noun
olds is spelled O-L-D-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, olds means “One's parents” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in olds?
| Letters | 4: O-L-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.5 times per million words; the 7,338th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 olds?
Olds appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th 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 olds?
Olds 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).
What rhymes with olds?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as olds.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sold.
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 olds
- old singular
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does olds mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
UKslangOne's parents.
- 2
slangAnyone portrayed in the context as not young; for example, anyone older than the speaker's audience of coevals; often, middle-aged adults or older adults.
Her friends at school snicker at how the olds are clueless about TikTok trends. But they can't shame us olds about it very effectively, because we're old enough to know that today's trends too shall pass.
- 3
Information that is no longer new.
noun
- 1
informalA car of this make: an Oldsmobile.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does olds come from?
From old + -s; compare old folks, old man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).