shades
/ʃeɪdz/noun, verb
shades is spelled S-H-A-D-E-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shades means “plural of shade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in shades?
| Letters | 6: S-H-A-D-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 7,121st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 shades?
Shades appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st 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 shades?
- US /ʃeɪdz/
Shades 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-au-shades.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with shades?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as shades from its last stressed vowel (/eɪdz/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sashed.
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 shades mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of shade
- 2
colloquialSunglasses.
His shades are by some famous designer.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of shade
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).