lanes
/leɪnz/noun
lanes is spelled L-A-N-E-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 9.3 times per million words in written English, the 7,445th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, lanes means “bowling alley” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in lanes?
| Letters | 5: L-A-N-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.3 times per million words; the 7,445th 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 lanes?
Lanes appears 9.3 times per million words in written English, the 7,445th 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 lanes?
- /leɪnz/
Lanes 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)-Flame,_not_lame-lanes.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with lanes?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lanes.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: leans, slane.
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 lanes mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of lane
- 2
colloquialbowling alley
We spent every weekend down at the lanes.
- 3
USOne side of a divided highway that carries traffic in a single direction.
the northbound lanes of Interstate 95
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).