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plus

/ˈplʌs/preposition, conjunction, noun, adjective, verb

plus is spelled P-L-U-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 89 times per million words in written English, the 1,191st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a preposition, plus means “And; sum of the previous one and the following one” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in plus?

Letters4: P-L-U-S
Syllables1
In writing89 times per million words; the 1,191st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 plus?

Plus appears 89 times per million words in written English, the 1,191st 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 plus?

  • US /ˈplʌs/
  • /ˈplɜs/
  • [ˈplɘ̞s]

Plus has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-plus.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-plus.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Grendelkhan-plus.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with plus?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as plus from its last stressed vowel (/ʌs/):

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).

Forms of plus

  • pluses plural
  • plusses plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • pluss present, singular, he/she/it
  • plusing participle, present
  • plussing participle, present
  • plused participle, past
  • plussed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does plus mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

preposition

  1. 1

    And; sum of the previous one and the following one.

    Two plus two equals four.

  2. 2

    colloquialWith; having in addition.

    I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred euros in spending money!

conjunction

  1. 1

    And also; in addition; besides (which).

    Let's go home now. It's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.

noun

  1. 1

    A positive quantity.

    The figures show a plus.

  2. 2

    An asset or useful addition.

    He is a real plus to the team.

  3. 3

    A plus sign: +.

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of LGBT+

adjective

  1. 1

    Being positive rather than negative or zero.

    −2 * −2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")

  2. 2

    Positive, or involving advantage.

    He is a plus factor.

  3. 3

    Electrically positive.

    A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.

  4. 4

    informal(Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.

    The bus can fit 60 plus kids, but we only get 48.

  5. 5

    informalAnd more.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo add; to subject to addition.

  2. 2

    To increase in magnitude.

  3. 3

    To improve.

  4. 4

    To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.

  5. 5

    To sell additional related items with an original purchase.

  6. 6

    To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.

  7. 7

    datedTo give a mark of approval on Google+.

  8. 8

    To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate plus?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of plus: PMI.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Plus in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchplus (arithmetic: sum), positif, positive (positive, involving advantage)
Germanplus (arithmetic: sum), positiv (being positive rather than negative or zero)
Portuguesemais (arithmetic: sum), positivo (being positive rather than negative or zero), positiva (physics: electrically positive)
Spanishmás (arithmetic: sum), y de plus, y además, y encima, y a más, y de más a más (And also; in addition; besides (which))

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.

Where does plus come from?

Borrowed from Latin plūs (“more”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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