equals
/ˈiːkwəlz/noun, verb
equals is spelled E-Q-U-A-L-S: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, equals means “The symbol =” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in equals?
| Letters | 6: E-Q-U-A-L-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.5 times per million words; the 10,519th 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 equals?
Equals appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th 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 equals?
- /ˈiːkwəlz/
Equals 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-equals.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with equals?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as equals.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: squeal.
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 equals mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The symbol =
- 2
plural of equal
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of equal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).