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say it: ahdz
odds is a noun meaning "the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring". It is pronounced /ˈɑdz/ — ahdz. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another
“he offered odds of two to one”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for odds come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.