flares
/flɛɚ̯z/noun, verb
flares is spelled F-L-A-R-E-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, flares means “Bell-bottoms, pants with flared legs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in flares?
| Letters | 6: F-L-A-R-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,589th 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 flares?
Flares appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th 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 flares?
- UK /flɛə̯z/
- US /flɛɚ̯z/
- Australia /fleːz/
Flares 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-flares.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with flares?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as flares from its last stressed vowel (/ɛəɹz/):
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 flares mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Bell-bottoms, pants with flared legs.
- 2
plural of flare
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of flare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).