hots
noun, verb
hots is spelled H-O-T-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hots means “A condition of physical attraction toward (for) someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hots is the hots.
How many letters and syllables are in hots?
| Letters | 4: H-O-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 36,998th 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 hots?
Hots appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th 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 hots?
- Australia
Hots 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-au-hots.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with hots?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as hots.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: shot, host, tosh.
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 hots
- the hots plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hots mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangA condition of physical attraction toward (for) someone.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of hot
noun
- 1
plural of HOT
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).