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es

/-ɪz/noun, verb, conjunction

es is spelled E-S: 2 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, es means “Alternative form of ess (the name of the Latin script letter S/s) in compounds such as "es-hook"” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of es is esses or eses.

How many letters and syllables are in es?

Letters2: E-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.5 times per million words; the 7,910th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 es?

Es appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th 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 es?

  • /-ɪz/
  • /-əz/
  • /-z/
  • /ɛs/

Es 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).

Words people confuse with es

Also written: e's, ess.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of es

  • esses plural
  • eses plural

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

What does es mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of ess (the name of the Latin script letter S/s) in compounds such as "es-hook".

  2. 2

    The name of the Cyrillic script letter С / с.

  3. 3

    rareAlternative form of e's.

noun

as ES
  1. 1

    Initialism of environmental science.

  2. 2

    Initialism of emergency services.

  3. 3

    Initialism of engineering sample.

  4. 4

    Initialism of elementary school.

  5. 5

    Initialism of executive secretary.

noun

as Es
  1. 1

    plural of E (a form of E)

verb

  1. 1

    Pronunciation spelling of is.

conjunction

  1. 1

    Pronunciation spelling of as.

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

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