fires
/ˈfaɪ̯ɚz/noun, verb
fires is spelled F-I-R-E-S: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,407th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fires means “plural of fire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in fires?
| Letters | 5: F-I-R-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,407th 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 fires?
Fires appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,407th 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 fires?
- UK /ˈfaɪ̯ə(ɹ)z/
- US /ˈfaɪ̯ɚz/
Fires 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-fires.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with fires?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as fires (/aɪəɹz/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: fries, serif.
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 fires mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of fire
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of fire
noun
- 1
Acronym of febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).