woods
/wʊdz/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.
noun
For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
name
A topographic surname from Middle English, variant of Wood. Possibly patronymic.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "These woods are part of the Campbell property."
- "This woods is part of the Campbell property. (uncommon)"
- "The woods are lovely, dark and deep"
- "Where protection is not considered essential, the logical places for establishing a woods are on those portions of the farm which have steep slopes […]."
- "Night after night, we both had similar dreams that our daughter was wandering around in a woods."
- "It is a crop, like a crop of corn, which differs from a natural field of grasses in the way that a crop of trees differs from a woods."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /wʊdz/
- British English: /wʊdz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Big Woods
Great North Woods
Lake of the Woods
master of the woods
out of the woods
Woods County
Woods Hole
Woods Point