woods
/wʊdz/noun, verb
woods is spelled W-O-O-D-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,288th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, woods means “A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in woods?
| Letters | 5: W-O-O-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 28 times per million words; the 3,288th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 woods?
Woods appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,288th 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 woods?
- US /wʊdz/
- British /wɵdz/
- /wʉdz/
Woods 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-woods.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with woods?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as woods from its last stressed vowel (/ʊdz/):
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 woods mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.
These woods are part of the Campbell property.
- 2
For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
- 3
plural of wood
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of wood
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).