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ans

/ˈænz/noun, verb

ans is spelled A-N-S: 3 letters. It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Ans, the name). As a noun, ans means “plural of an” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in ans?

Letters3: A-N-S
In writing2.0 times per million words; the 19,336th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 ans?

Ans appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Ans, the name.

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

How do you pronounce ans?

  • US /ˈænz/

As a noun (“Abbreviation of answer”): /ˈæns/, /ˈɑːns/.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ans2.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ans.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with ans?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as ans from its last stressed vowel (/æns/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: san.

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).

Forms of ans

  • ans.

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

What does ans mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    plural of an (a form of an)

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of answer.

noun

as ANS
  1. 1

    Initialism of autonomic nervous system.

verb

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of answer.

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

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