bags
/bæɡz/noun, verb, interjection
bags is spelled B-A-G-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bags means “A large quantity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in bags?
| Letters | 4: B-A-G-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 27 times per million words; the 3,422nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is bags?
Bags appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd 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 bags?
- /bæɡz/
- /bæːɡz/
Bags 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). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_bags.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bags
- bagses present, singular, he/she/it
- bagsing participle, present
- bagsed participle, past
- baggs
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bags mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of bag
- 2
A large quantity.
No need to rush: there's bags of time.
- 3
A game similar to beanbag toss, cornhole.
- 4
slangTrousers.
- 5
slangvulgarA woman's breasts.
verb
- 1
AustraliaIrelandUKTo reserve for oneself.
- 2
third-person singular simple present indicative of bag
interjection
- 1
Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.
Bags I sit in the front seat!
noun
- 1
Acronym of beauty, age, goodness, size (“those categories of adjective that occur before the noun in French”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does bags come from?
Grammatical extension of third-person singular form of bag (“make first claim on something”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).