pains
/peɪnz/noun, verb
pains is spelled P-A-I-N-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pains means “Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in pains?
| Letters | 5: P-A-I-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.9 times per million words; the 9,045th 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 pains?
Pains appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th 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 pains?
- /peɪnz/
Pains 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-pains.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with pains?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pains.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: spina, aspin, pisan.
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 pains mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
- 2
plural of pain
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of pain
noun
- 1
plural of PAIN
noun
- 1
plural of PAIN
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).