oodles

Other forms of oodles

plural

oodleses·

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.

Questions about oodles

What does oodles mean?

oodles means "a large number or amount".

How many syllables are in oodles?

oodles has 2 syllables: ood-les. The stress falls on "ood". In IPA it is /ˈudəlz/.

What is another word for oodles?

Close synonyms include tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oodles a common word?

oodles is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.