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civvies

/ˈsɪv.iz/noun

civvies is spelled C-I-V-V-I-E-S: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, civvies means “Civilian clothes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in civvies?

Letters7: C-I-V-V-I-E-S
In writingabout once in every 12 million words; the 105,204th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is civvies?

Civvies appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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 civvies?

  • /ˈsɪv.iz/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-civvies.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of civvies

  • civies

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

What does civvies mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangCivilian clothes.

  2. 2

    plural of civvy (a form of civvy)

  3. 3

    plural of civvie (a form of civvie)

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

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