mates
/meɪts/adjective, noun, verb
mates is spelled M-A-T-E-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, mates means “Friendly; having a friendship (with)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in mates?
| Letters | 5: M-A-T-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.8 times per million words; the 7,224th 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 mates?
Mates appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th 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 mates?
- /meɪts/
Mates 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)-Persent101-mates.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with mates?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as mates.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: steam, satem.
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 mates mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Friendly; having a friendship (with).
He is mates with my brother.
noun
- 1
plural of mate
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of mate
noun
- 1
plural of maté
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).