cards
/kɑɹdz/noun, verb
cards is spelled C-A-R-D-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 58 times per million words in written English, the 1,793rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cards means “Card games” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in cards?
| Letters | 5: C-A-R-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 58 times per million words; the 1,793rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 cards?
Cards appears 58 times per million words in written English, the 1,793rd 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 cards?
- US /kɑɹdz/
- UK /kɑːdz/
Cards 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-us-cards.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with cards?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cards from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹdz/):
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 cards mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Card games.
He's a fan of cards.
- 2
plural of card
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of card
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).