remains

re·mains/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/noun, verb

remains is spelled R-E-M-A-I-N-S: 7 letters and 2 syllables (re·mains). It appears 63 times per million words in written English, the 1,668th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, remains means “The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in remains?

Letters	7: R-E-M-A-I-N-S
Syllables	2: re·mains
In writing	63 times per million words; the 1,668th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Same letters	marines seminar

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 remains?

Remains appears 63 times per million words in written English, the 1,668th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce remains?

/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/

Remains has 2 syllables, split re·mains in writing.

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

What rhymes with remains?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as remains.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: marines, seminar.

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 remains mean?

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

noun

1
The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.
2
Historical or archaeological relics.
3
The extant writings of a deceased person.
To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
4
All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
5
rareplural of remain (a form of remain)

verb

1
third-person singular simple present indicative of remain (a form of remain)
We'll go ahead, while she remains here.

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

Remains in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	dépouille, cendres, restes (what is left after a person (or any organism)…), ruines (relic of an ancient building or other structure), reste (all that is left of the stock of some things…)
German	Gebeine, Überreste (what is left after a person (or any organism)…), Ruinen (relic of an ancient building or other structure)
Portuguese	restos (what is left after a person (or any organism)…), ruína (relic of an ancient building or other structure), resto (all that is left of the stock of some things…)
Spanish	restos (what is left after a person (or any organism)…)

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.