homes
/hoʊmz/noun, verb
homes is spelled H-O-M-E-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 49 times per million words in written English, the 2,072nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, homes means “plural of home” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in homes?
| Letters | 5: H-O-M-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 49 times per million words; the 2,072nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is homes?
Homes appears 49 times per million words in written English, the 2,072nd 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 homes?
- UK /həʊmz/
- US /hoʊmz/
Homes 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-homes.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with homes
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: holmes.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with homes?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as homes from its last stressed vowel (/oʊmz/):
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 homes mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of home
- 2
slangAlternative spelling of holmes.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of home
noun
- 1
plural of Home
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).