roads
/ɹoʊdz/noun
roads is spelled R-O-A-D-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,725th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, roads means “A roadstead” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in roads?
| Letters | 5: R-O-A-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 35 times per million words; the 2,725th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| 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 roads?
Roads appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,725th 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 roads?
- US /ɹoʊdz/
- UK /ɹəʊdz/
Roads 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-us-roads.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with roads
Sounds like: Rhodes (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with roads?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as roads from its last stressed vowel (/oʊdz/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sarod.
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 roads mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A roadstead.
Hampton Roads
- 2
plural of road
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).