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ends

/ɛndz/noun, verb

ends is spelled E-N-D-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 56 times per million words in written English, the 1,822nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ends means “The area in close proximity to one's home; neighbourhood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in ends?

Letters4: E-N-D-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing56 times per million words; the 1,822nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 ends?

Ends appears 56 times per million words in written English, the 1,822nd 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 ends?

  • /ɛndz/

Ends 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-ends.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with ends?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ends.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: send, dens, sned.

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 ends mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The area in close proximity to one's home; neighbourhood.

    Don't come 'round my ends again, yeah?

  2. 2

    slangMoney.

  3. 3

    plural of end (a form of end)

verb

  1. 1

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

noun

as ENDS
  1. 1

    Acronym of Electronic Nicotine Delivery System, e.g. a vape, e-cigarette, etc.

noun

as Ends
  1. 1

    plural of End (a form of End)

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

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