kicks
/kɪks/noun, verb
kicks is spelled K-I-C-K-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kicks means “plural of kick” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in kicks?
| Letters | 5: K-I-C-K-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,347th 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 kicks?
Kicks appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th 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 kicks?
- /kɪks/
Kicks 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-kicks.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does kicks mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of kick
- 2
colloquialShoes.
- 3
colloquialCommissary, or the balance of a commissary account.
I’ve seen your kicks, inmate: you’ve got forty cents to your name.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of kick
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).