men
/mɛn/noun
men is spelled M-E-N: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 324 times per million words in written English, the 289th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “man vs men” about 1,900 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, men means “plural of man” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in men?
| Letters | 3: M-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 324 times per million words; the 289th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is men?
Men appears 324 times per million words in written English, the 289th 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 men?
- /mɛn/
- /mɪn/
Men 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: En-us-men.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with men
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: mens.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with men?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as men.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: enm.
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 men mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of man
- 2
dated(The) people, humanity, man(kind).
- 3
datedEnlisted personnel (as opposed to commissioned officers).
"Muster up the men in the barracks at 0600," the lieutenant said to his sergeant.
noun
- 1
Acronym of multiple endocrine neoplasia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate men?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of men: M.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Men in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense human people:
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 men come from?
From Middle English men, from Old English menn (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *manniz, nominative plural of Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person”). Cognate with German Männer (“men”), Danish mænd (“men”), Swedish män (“men”). More at man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).