dees
/ˈdiːz/noun
dees is spelled D-E-E-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dees means “Something shaped like the letter D” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in dees?
| Letters | 4: D-E-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 52,337th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 dees?
Dees appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th 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 dees?
- /ˈdiːz/
Dees 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).
What rhymes with dees?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dees.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: seed, dese.
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 dees mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of dee, the name of the letter D.
- 2
Something shaped like the letter D.
The pommel is furnished with dees.
- 3
colloquialPolice detectives.
The dees are about.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of dees.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).