dishes
/ˈdɪʃɪz/noun, verb
dishes is spelled D-I-S-H-E-S: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dishes means “Dishwashing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in dishes?
| Letters | 6: D-I-S-H-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 dishes?
Dishes appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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 dishes?
- UK /ˈdɪʃɪz/
Dishes 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-dishes.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dishes?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dishes from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃɪz/, British pronunciation):
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 dishes mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Dishwashing
After dinner they had to do the dishes.
- 2
plural of dish
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of dish
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dishes in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense dishwashing:
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.