notes
/noʊts/noun, verb
notes is spelled N-O-T-E-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 69 times per million words in written English, the 1,528th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, notes means “plural of note” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in notes?
| Letters | 5: N-O-T-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 69 times per million words; the 1,528th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 notes?
Notes appears 69 times per million words in written English, the 1,528th 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 notes?
- US /noʊts/
- UK /nəʊts/
Notes 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-notes.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with notes?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as notes from its last stressed vowel (/oʊts/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: stone, onset, seton, steno.
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 notes mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of note
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of note
noun
- 1
Acronym of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate notes?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of notes: nn..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).