glasses

/ˈɡlæsɪz/noun, verb

glasses is spelled G-L-A-S-S-E-S: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 4,015th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, glasses means “Spectacles, frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in glasses?

Letters	7: G-L-A-S-S-E-S
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	22 times per million words; the 4,015th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	molasses
Same letters	gasless

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 glasses?

Glasses appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 4,015th most frequent word form in the list.

glasses0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce glasses?

UK /ˈɡlɑːsɪz/
UK /ˈɡlasɪz/
US /ˈɡlæsɪz/

Glasses 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-uk-glasses.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with glasses?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as glasses from its last stressed vowel (/æsɪz/):

molasses

Spelled with the same letters in another order: gasless.

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 glasses mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
Spectacles, frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes.
2
Field glasses; binoculars.
3
plural of glass (a form of glass)

verb

1
third-person singular simple present indicative of glass (a form of glass)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).