exercises
ex·er·cises/ˈɛk.sɚ.saɪ.zɪz/noun, verb
exercises is spelled E-X-E-R-C-I-S-E-S, 3 syllables: ex·er·cises. The wrong spelling people search most is excercises: about 190 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Exercises is a noun meaning “A ceremony or assembly: opening exercises; graduation exercises”.
How many letters and syllables are in exercises?
| Letters | 9: E-X-E-R-C-I-S-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ex·er·cises |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, excercises, about 190 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell exercises?
Exercises is spelled E-X-E-R-C-I-S-E-S. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for exercises in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is exercises?
Exercises appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,878th 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 exercises?
- UK /ˈɛk.sə.saɪ.zɪz/
- US /ˈɛk.sɚ.saɪ.zɪz/
- Australia /ˈek.sə.sɑe.zɪz/
Exercises has 3 syllables, split ex·er·cises in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-exercises.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with exercises?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as exercises (/ɛksəɹsaɪzɪz/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sexercise.
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 exercises mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of exercise
- 2
A ceremony or assembly: opening exercises; graduation exercises.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of exercise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).