rules
/ˈɹulz/noun, verb
rules is spelled R-U-L-E-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 115 times per million words in written English, the 932nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rules means “plural of rule” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in rules?
| Letters | 5: R-U-L-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 115 times per million words; the 932nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 rules?
Rules appears 115 times per million words in written English, the 932nd 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 rules?
- UK /ˈɹuːlz/
- US /ˈɹulz/
Rules 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-rules.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with rules?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as rules from its last stressed vowel (/ulz/):
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 rules mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of rule
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of rule
noun
- 1
informalAustralian rules football.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).