courses

/ˈkɔɹsɪz/noun, verb

courses is spelled C-O-U-R-S-E-S: 7 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, courses means “plural of course” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in courses?

Letters	7: C-O-U-R-S-E-S
Syllables	1
In writing	29 times per million words; the 3,218th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	forces
Same letters	sucrose scouser

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is courses?

Courses appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th most frequent word form in the list.

courses0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce courses?

UK /ˈkɔːsɪz/
US /ˈkɔɹsɪz/
/ˈko(ː)ɹsɪz/

Courses has one syllable.

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

What rhymes with courses?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as courses from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹsɪz/):

forces

Spelled with the same letters in another order: sucrose, scouser.

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 courses mean?

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

noun

1
plural of course (a form of course)
2
obsoleteMenses.

verb

1
third-person singular simple present indicative of course (a form of course)

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