falls
/fɔlz/noun, verb
falls is spelled F-A-L-L-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 43 times per million words in written English, the 2,339th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, falls means “A waterfall” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in falls?
| Letters | 5: F-A-L-L-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 43 times per million words; the 2,339th 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 falls?
Falls appears 43 times per million words in written English, the 2,339th 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 falls?
- UK /fɔːlz/
- /faːlz/
- US /fɔlz/
Falls 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-falls.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with falls?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as falls from its last stressed vowel (/ɔlz/):
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 falls mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A waterfall.
Niagara Falls
- 2
plural of fall
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of fall
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Falls in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense waterfall:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Wasserfall, -fälle |
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.