oodles
/ˈuːd(ə)lz/
"oodles" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oodles” is uncommon English (frequency #57,612 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,612
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - unspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oodles |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈuːd(ə)lz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oodles” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
oodles is uncommon English at frequency #57,612 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈuːd(ə)lz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "unspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.".
oodles has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Uncertain; perhaps from scadoodles (“unspecified large amount, number, or quantity”) (US, slang) (although the Oxford English Dictionary notes this is attested slightly later), or from boodle (“whole collection or lot”) (US, dialectal), caboodle (“large col… The correct English form is oodles, spelled O-O-D-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1unspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps from scadoodles (“unspecified large amount, number, or quantity”) (US, slang) (although the Oxford English Dictionary notes this is attested slightly later), or from boodle (“whole collection or lot”) (US, dialectal), caboodle (“large collection of people or things”) (US, slang) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “oodles”
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- The one correct English spelling is O-O-D-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.