depends
/dɪˈpɛndz/interjection, verb
depends is spelled D-E-P-E-N-D-S: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 34 times per million words in written English, the 2,831st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, depends means “Apheretic form of it depends; used to indicate more information is known but a simple answer cannot be given” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in depends?
| Letters | 7: D-E-P-E-N-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 34 times per million words; the 2,831st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is depends?
Depends appears 34 times per million words in written English, the 2,831st 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 depends?
- /dɪˈpɛndz/
Depends 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: En-us-depends.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does depends mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
interjection
- 1
Apheretic form of it depends; used to indicate more information is known but a simple answer cannot be given
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of depend
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).