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cats

/kæts/noun, verb

cats is spelled C-A-T-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cats means “plural of cat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in cats?

Letters4: C-A-T-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing29 times per million words; the 3,218th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
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 cats?

Cats appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th 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 cats?

  • /kæts/

Cats 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-cats.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with cats

Sounds like: Katz (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with cats?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as cats.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: cast, scat.

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 cats mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of cat (a form of cat)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of cat (a form of cat)

noun

as CATS
  1. 1

    UKinformalA credit under the CAT Scheme above.

    We only have 45 allocated CATS for next year, so we've got to pick another 5 modules to make 120.

noun

as Cats
  1. 1

    plural of Cat (a form of Cat)

noun

as CATs
  1. 1

    plural of CAT (a form of CAT)

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

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