papers
/ˈpeɪpɚz/noun, verb
papers is spelled P-A-P-E-R-S: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 41 times per million words in written English, the 2,438th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, papers means “Official documents or identification, as a passport” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in papers?
| Letters | 6: P-A-P-E-R-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 41 times per million words; the 2,438th 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 papers?
Papers appears 41 times per million words in written English, the 2,438th 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 papers?
- US /ˈpeɪpɚz/
- UK /ˈpeɪpəz/
Papers has 2 syllables (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-papers.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with papers?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as papers (/eɪpəɹz/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sapper.
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 papers mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Official documents or identification, as a passport.
He lost his papers while travelling and had a hard time getting home.
- 2
A collection of documents, unpublished writing or correspondence in an archive or library collection.
- 3
Australiacigarette papers
- 4
plural of paper.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of paper
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Papers in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense official documents or identification:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | papeles |
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.