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curls

noun, verb

curls is a noun meaning “Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-U-R-L-S and has one syllable, and it appears 2.6 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does curls mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head.

  2. 2

    plural of curl (a form of curl)

verb

  1. 1

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

noun

as Curls
  1. 1

    plural of Curl (a form of Curl)

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

How do you pronounce curls?

  • US

Curls 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: En-us-curls.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is curls?

Curls appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th 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).

Curls in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head:

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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.