ancients
noun
ancients is spelled A-N-C-I-E-N-T-S: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ancients means “The people of classical antiquity, especially such writers and philosophers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in ancients?
| Letters | 8: A-N-C-I-E-N-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is ancients?
Ancients appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th 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).
How do you pronounce ancients?
- US
Ancients has 2 syllables (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). Recordings: En-us-ancients.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with ancients?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ancients.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: instance.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does ancients mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The people of classical antiquity, especially such writers and philosophers.
- 2
plural of ancient
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ancients in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the people of antiquity:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | los antiguos |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.