comics
/ˈkɑmɪks/noun
comics is spelled C-O-M-I-C-S: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,407th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, comics means “the medium of comic books, comic strips, and other sequential art” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in comics?
| Letters | 6: C-O-M-I-C-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,407th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 comics?
Comics appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,407th 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 comics?
- US /ˈkɑmɪks/
- UK /ˈkɒmɪks/
Comics has 2 syllables (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)-Vealhurl-comics.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with comics?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as comics from its last stressed vowel (/ɑmɪks/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cosmic.
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 comics mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
the medium of comic books, comic strips, and other sequential art
[bold in original] "Comics" is the word worth defining, as it refers to the medium itself, not a specific object as "comic book" or "comic strip" do."
- 2
plural of comic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Comics in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense artistic medium:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bande dessinée, BD, bédé |
| German | Comicliteratur |
| Portuguese | quadrinhos, HQ, história em quadrinhos, gibi, banda desenhada, BD |
| Spanish | tebeo |
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.