pubes
/ˈpjuːbiːz/noun
pubes is spelled P-U-B-E-S. The wrong spelling people search most is pewbs: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 61 of all searches for the word. Pubes is a noun meaning “The pubic hair”.
How many letters and syllables are in pubes?
| Letters | 5: P-U-B-E-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 42,680th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pewbs, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell pubes?
Pubes is spelled P-U-B-E-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 61 of the searches for pubes in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is pubes?
Pubes appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,680th 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 pubes?
- /ˈpjuːbiːz/
As a noun: /pjuːbz/.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pubes.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-pubes.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pubes2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does pubes mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
rareThe pubic hair.
- 2
The pubic region.
- 3
plural of pubis (“pubic bones”)
- 4
plural of pube
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pubes in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The pubic hair:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | toison |
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 pubes come from?
From Latin pubes (“the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, the genitals”), from pubes, puber (“grown up, of mature age; of plants, downy, pubescent”); see puberty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).