miles
/maɪlz/noun, adverb
miles is spelled M-I-L-E-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 100 times per million words in written English, the 1,076th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Miles, the name). As a noun, miles means “A great distance in space or time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in miles?
| Letters | 5: M-I-L-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 100 times per million words; the 1,076th 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 miles?
Miles appears 100 times per million words in written English, the 1,076th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Miles, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce miles?
- /maɪlz/
Miles 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-miles.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with miles?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as miles.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: smile, slime, limes.
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 miles mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of mile
- 2
informalA great distance in space or time.
His final shot missed the bullseye by miles.
adverb
- 1
informalmuch; a lot (used to emphasise a comparative)
Her new paintings are miles better than her older ones.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).