bats
/bæts/adjective, noun, verb
bats is spelled B-A-T-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, bats means “Mad, insane” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in bats?
| Letters | 4: B-A-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.6 times per million words; the 9,313th 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 bats?
Bats appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th 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 bats?
- /bæts/
Bats 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-bats.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with bats?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as bats.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: stab, bast.
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 bats
- more bats comparative
- most bats superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bats mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
informalMad, insane.
You must be bats to go out in the cold without a coat on.
noun
- 1
plural of bat
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of bat
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).