blues
/bluːz/noun, verb
blues is spelled B-L-U-E-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 4,015th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blues means “A feeling of sadness or depression” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in blues?
| Letters | 5: B-L-U-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 22 times per million words; the 4,015th 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 blues?
Blues appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 4,015th 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 blues?
- /bluːz/
Blues 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-blues.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with blues?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as blues.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: bulse.
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 blues mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
informalA feeling of sadness or depression.
I've got the blues today.
- 2
informalOne's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
Your blues is just like mine.
- 3
informalThe negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.
I've got the lonely man's blues.
- 4
A musical form, of African-American origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
- 5
A musical composition following blues forms.
My next number is a blues in G.
- 6
A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
They marched in their dress blues.
- 7
slangAny of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription painkiller tablets.
- 8
plural of blue
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of blue
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Blues in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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.