letters
/ˈlɛtɚz/noun, verb
letters is spelled L-E-T-T-E-R-S: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 46 times per million words in written English, the 2,204th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, letters means “Literature (school subject)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in letters?
| Letters | 7: L-E-T-T-E-R-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 46 times per million words; the 2,204th 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 letters?
Letters appears 46 times per million words in written English, the 2,204th 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 letters?
- US /ˈlɛtɚz/
- UK /ˈlɛtəz/
Letters has 2 syllables (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-us-letters.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with letters?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as letters (/ɛtəɹz/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: settler, trestle.
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 letters mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Literature (school subject).
Rickert was the first woman (and second individual) to be awarded a Ph.D. in English letters and philology with that academic honor at the University of Chicago.
- 2
The liberal arts, humanities, learning (broad accumulated cultural knowledge).
Though architecture in ancient Rome was not generally considered to belong to the artes liberales, Vitruvius easily qualified as a man of letters because of his wide learning.
- 3
plural of letter
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of letter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).