rates
/ɹeɪts/noun, verb
rates is spelled R-A-T-E-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 76 times per million words in written English, the 1,394th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rates means “Taxes, usually on property, levied by local government” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in rates?
| Letters | 5: R-A-T-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 76 times per million words; the 1,394th 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 rates?
Rates appears 76 times per million words in written English, the 1,394th 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 rates?
- /ɹeɪts/
Rates 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: En-us-rates.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with rates?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as rates.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tears, stare, taser, aster, sater, teras, setar.
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 rates mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
AustraliaUKTaxes, usually on property, levied by local government.
- 2
informalAbbreviation of interest rates.
Nonetheless, it did not stop the Fed from cutting rates last Thursday.
- 3
plural of rate
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of rate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).