pads
/pædz/noun, verb
pads is spelled P-A-D-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pads means “plural of pad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in pads?
| Letters | 4: P-A-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.9 times per million words; the 10,028th 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 pads?
Pads appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th 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 pads?
- /pædz/
Pads 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 pads?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pads.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: spad.
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 pads mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of pad
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of pad
noun
- 1
slangInitialism of post-Avatar depression syndrome (“a feeling of depression brought upon by watching the 2009 epic science fiction film Avatar or its sequels, as a result of not being able to experience the movie's world in real life”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pads in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense post-Avatar depression syndrome:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | syndrome de dépression post-Avatar, PADS |
| German | Pandora-Depression, Post-Avatar-Depression-Syndrom, PADS, P.A.D.S., Post-Avatar-Depression, PAD |
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.