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sads

noun, verb

sads is spelled S-A-D-S: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sads means “plural of sad (the Arabic letter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sads is the sads.

How many letters and syllables are in sads?

Letters4: S-A-D-S
In writingabout once in every 15 million words; the 115,751st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 sads?

Sads appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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).

What rhymes with sads?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sads.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: dass.

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 sads

  • the sads plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sads mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    plural of sad (the Arabic letter) (a form of sad)

  2. 2

    colloquialSadness or melancholy.

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of sad (a form of sad)

noun

as SADS
  1. 1

    Initialism of sudden arrhythmic death syndrome.

  2. 2

    Initialism of sudden adult death syndrome.

  3. 3

    Initialism of swine acute diarrhea syndrome.

noun

as SADs
  1. 1

    plural of SAD (a form of SAD)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does sads come from?

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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