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class

UK /klɑːs/noun, verb, adjective

class is spelled C-L-A-S-S. The wrong spelling people search most is clazz: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 1,111 of all searches for the word. Class is a noun meaning “A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes”. The plural of class is classes.

How many letters and syllables are in class?

Letters5: C-L-A-S-S
Syllables1
In writing229 times per million words; the 437th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, clazz, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell class?

Class is spelled C-L-A-S-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 1,175 of the searches for class in either form.

classthe right spelling23,480 searches a month
clazzz in place of s, z in place of s20 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is class?

Class appears 229 times per million words in written English, the 437th 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 class?

  • UK /klɑːs/
  • /klæs/
  • /klas/

Class has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-class.ogg, En-us-class.ogg, En-class.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with class?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as class from its last stressed vowel (/ɑs/, British pronunciation):

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 class

  • classes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • classing participle, present
  • classed participle, past

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

What does class mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

    The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.

  2. 2

    A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.

  3. 3

    The division of society into classes.

    Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.

  4. 4

    Admirable behavior; elegance.

    Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.

  5. 5

    A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

    The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.

  6. 6

    A series of lessons covering a single subject.

    I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.

  7. 7

    A single lesson in a series.

    Tomorrow's class will cover long division.

  8. 8

    A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

    The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.

verb

  1. 1

    To assign to a class; to classify.

    I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.

  2. 2

    To be grouped or classed.

  3. 3

    To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

adjective

  1. 1

    Irelandslanggreat; fabulous

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

Class in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchclasse (group, collection, category or set sharing…), cours (series of classes covering a single subject)
GermanKlasse (group, collection, category or set sharing…), Stil (admirable behavior; elegance), klassifizieren (to assign to a class)
Portugueseclasse (group, collection, category or set sharing…), aula (group of students in a regularly scheduled…)
Spanishclase, estofa, rubro (group, collection, category or set sharing…), estamento (social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc)

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.

Where does class come from?

From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis. Displaced Old English ġecynd.

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

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