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presents

/ˈpɹɛzənts/noun, verb

presents is spelled P-R-E-S-E-N-T-S: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,558th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, presents means “The contents of the present document: the one in which the word presents appears” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in presents?

Letters8: P-R-E-S-E-N-T-S
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing26 times per million words; the 3,558th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is presents?

Presents appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,558th 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 presents?

  • /ˈpɹɛzənts/

As a verb: /pɹɪˈzɛnts/.

Presents 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-presents.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-presents2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does presents mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The contents of the present document: the one in which the word presents appears.

    Know all men by these presents...

  2. 2

    plural of present (a form of present)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of present (a form of present)

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

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