heads
/hɛdz/interjection, noun, verb
heads is spelled H-E-A-D-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, heads means “A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads; heads-up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in heads?
| Letters | 5: H-E-A-D-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 47 times per million words; the 2,153rd 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 heads?
Heads appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd 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 heads?
- /hɛdz/
Heads 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-heads.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with heads?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as heads.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: shade.
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).
Forms of heads
- heads!
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does heads mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
interjection
- 1
A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads; heads-up.
noun
- 1
The part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.
- 2
One side of a coin
Heads, I win.
- 3
The side that bears the picture of the head of state or other national symbol.
- 4
IrelandThe side that does not bear an image of the Irish harp.
- 5
Clipping of headphones.
Pass me the heads, I wanna listen.
- 6
IrelandThe draft scheme of a bill before it is formally introduced to a parliament.
- 7
Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- 8
slangHigh-grade marijuana.
- 9
plural of head.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of head
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Heads in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense side of coin:
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.
Where does heads come from?
Plural of head.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).