how to pronounce woods

/ˈwʊdz/

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woods is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of woods in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… tiger woods yeah and get crafty i feel …”

meanings of woods

noun:

Plural of wood.
For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
A dense collection of trees covering a relatively small area; smaller than a forest.

name:

A topographic surname, variant of Wood. Possibly patronymic.
Plural of Wood.

verb:

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wood.

woods frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word woods occurs in english on average 29.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics woods can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that woods can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;