plates
/pleɪts/noun, verb
plates is spelled P-L-A-T-E-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, plates means “Synonym of number plate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in plates?
| Letters | 6: P-L-A-T-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,934th 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 plates?
Plates appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th 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 plates?
- US /pleɪts/
Plates 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-plates.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with plates?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as plates (/eɪts/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: staple, pastel, septal.
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 plates mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Synonym of number plate.
- 2
plural of plate
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of plate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate plates?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of plates: pl, pl..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).