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longs

noun, verb

longs is a noun meaning “Long trousers/pants, as opposed to shorts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-N-G-S and has one syllable, and it appears 1.0 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does longs mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Long trousers/pants, as opposed to shorts.

  2. 2

    plural of long (a form of long)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of long (a form of long)

noun

as lóngs
  1. 1

    plural of lóng (a form of lóng)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce longs?

    Longs has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is longs?

    Longs appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,214th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).