lass
/læs/noun
lass is spelled L-A-S-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, lass means “A girl; also (by extension), a young woman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of lass is lasses.
How many letters and syllables are in lass?
| Letters | 4: L-A-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 26,092nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is lass?
Lass appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd 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 lass?
- US /læs/
Lass 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-lass.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with lass?
10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as lass from its last stressed vowel (/æs/):
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 lass
- lasses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lass mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A girl; also (by extension), a young woman.
Come and dance, ye lads and lasses!
- 2
A female member of the Salvation Army; a hallelujah lass.
- 3
A sweetheart.
- 4
ScotlandA female servant; a maid, a maidservant.
- 5
ScotlandA term of address for a woman, or a female animal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Lass in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fillette, jeune fille , demoiselle, fille, jeune femme, nana |
| German | Jungfrau, Mädchen |
| Portuguese | garota, menina, rapariga, senhorita |
| Spanish | niña , chica, chiquita, muchacha, señorita |
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 lass come from?
From Middle English las, lasce, lasse (“female infant or child; young woman”), traditionally derived from Old Norse lǫskr (“unmarried”, adjective); see Middle English las for more.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).