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theres

contraction, noun

theres is a contraction meaning “There is; there's” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-E-R-E-S, and it appears 7.9 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does theres mean?

contraction

  1. 1

    informalThere is; there's.

noun

  1. 1

    plural of there (a form of there)

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

How common is theres?

Theres appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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).