suds

Other forms of suds

plural

sudses·

past tense

sudsed·

present participle

sudsing·

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 suds

What does suds mean?

suds means "the froth produced by soaps or detergents". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suds?

suds has 1 syllable: suds. In IPA it is /ˈsʌdz/.

What is another word for suds?

Close synonyms include soapsuds, lather, froth, spume. 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 suds a common word?

suds 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.