jeans
/d͡ʒiːnz/noun
jeans is spelled J-E-A-N-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jeans means “A pair of trousers made from denim cotton” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in jeans?
| Letters | 5: J-E-A-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,138th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is jeans?
Jeans appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th 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 jeans?
- /d͡ʒiːnz/
Jeans 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-jeans.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of jeans
- jean
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does jeans mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.
- 2
plural of jean
noun
- 1
plural of Jean
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Jeans in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense denim trousers:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | jeans |
| German | Niethose, Jeans, Jeanshose |
| Portuguese | jeans, calça jeans |
| Spanish | blue jeans (blu yins), bluyín, jeans (yins), mahones, pantalones de mezclilla, pitusa |
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 jeans come from?
From Gene(s) (also spelled Jean(s)), an obsolete English name for the Italian city of Genoa. Compare French Gênes. In the context of clothing, the term originally denoted a kind of coarse cotton (known more fully as Gene(s) fustian) that was associated with Genoa. It began to be used for trousers made of such cloth in the 19th century. At this point, the final -s was reanalysed as a plural ending.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).