sides
/saɪdz/noun, verb
sides is spelled S-I-D-E-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 54 times per million words in written English, the 1,899th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sides means “plural of side” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sides?
| Letters | 5: S-I-D-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 54 times per million words; the 1,899th 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; 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 sides?
Sides appears 54 times per million words in written English, the 1,899th 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 sides?
- /saɪdz/
Sides has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-sides.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sides?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sides.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: desis.
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 sides mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of side.
- 2
slangClipping of side effects.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of side
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).