guns
/ɡʌnz/noun, verb
guns is spelled G-U-N-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 46 times per million words in written English, the 2,204th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, guns means “Well-developed muscles of the upper arm, especially the biceps and triceps” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in guns?
| Letters | 4: G-U-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 46 times per million words; the 2,204th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 guns?
Guns appears 46 times per million words in written English, the 2,204th 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 guns?
- US /ɡʌnz/
Guns 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-guns.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with guns?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as guns from its last stressed vowel (/ʌnz/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: snug.
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 guns mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangWell-developed muscles of the upper arm, especially the biceps and triceps.
I read in another magazine about a workout that can put a whole inch on your arms in just one day! Obviously that sounds awesome, because my guns are only 15 inches.
- 2
plural of gun
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of gun
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).