scenes

/sinz/noun, verb

scenes is spelled S-C-E-N-E-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 38 times per million words in written English, the 2,581st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, scenes means “A funny or incredible and usually chaotic situation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in scenes?

Letters	6: S-C-E-N-E-S
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	38 times per million words; the 2,581st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	means smithereens

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 scenes?

Scenes appears 38 times per million words in written English, the 2,581st most frequent word form in the list.

scenes0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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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 scenes?

UK /siːnz/
US /sinz/

Scenes 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-scenes.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with scenes?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as scenes from its last stressed vowel (/inz/):

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 scenes mean?

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

noun

1
plural of scene (a form of scene)
2
UKinformalA funny or incredible and usually chaotic situation.

verb

1
third-person singular simple present indicative of scene (a form of scene)

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