funds
/fʌndz/noun, verb
funds is spelled F-U-N-D-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 55 times per million words in written English, the 1,865th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, funds means “Financial resources” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in funds?
| Letters | 5: F-U-N-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 55 times per million words; the 1,865th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 funds?
Funds appears 55 times per million words in written English, the 1,865th 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 funds?
- UK /fʌndz/
- US /fʌndz/
- US [fəndz]
Funds 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)-Vealhurl-funds.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does funds mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Financial resources.
I don’t know if I have the funds for this.
- 2
Permanent debts due by a government and paying interest.
- 3
plural of fund
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of fund
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Funds in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense financial resources:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fonds |
| German | Geldmittel, Gelder |
| Spanish | fondos |
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.