aids
/eɪdz/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.25 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The student-led group has consistently ranked among the top 20 fundraisers for the walkathon, organizers said. Started 15 years ago by a determined 7-year-old named Leo Beckerman, Kids Who Care has raised more than $500,000 for AIDS organizations, according to the Beckerman family, of Studio City."
- "Patients with AIDS become highly susceptible to infection by intracellular microbes normally contained by T cells (Fig. 4.8)."
- "Dude, this game is so fucking AIDS."
- "If you were a South African health journalist during the late 1990s and early 2000s, you were mostly an Aids reporter."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /eɪdz/
- British English: /eɪdz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more AIDS (comparative)
most AIDS (superlative)