rats
/ɹæts/interjection, noun, verb
rats is spelled R-A-T-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, rats means “An expression of annoyance or disgust; damn, darn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in rats?
| Letters | 4: R-A-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,565th 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 rats?
Rats appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th 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 rats?
- /ɹæts/
Rats 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)-Vealhurl-rats.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with rats?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as rats.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: star, arts, tsar, sart.
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 rats mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
interjection
- 1
informalAn expression of annoyance or disgust; damn, darn.
- 2
informalAn expression of disbelief.
noun
- 1
plural of rat
verb
- 1
informalthird-person singular simple present indicative of rat
noun
- 1
plural of RAT
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Rats in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense damn, darn:
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.