simples

interjection, noun, verb

simples is spelled S-I-M-P-L-E-S: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, simples means “Indicating that something is easy to do or to understand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in simples?

Letters	7: S-I-M-P-L-E-S
In writing	about once in every 6 million words; the 74,122nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is simples?

Simples appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd most frequent word form in the list.

simples0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

How do you pronounce simples?

General-American
Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-simples.wav, En-au-simples.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does simples mean?

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

interjection

1
UKslangIndicating that something is easy to do or to understand.
So you claim. So, put whatcha got on the table, or STFU. ¶ Simples.

noun

1
plural of simple (a form of simple)

verb

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

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

Where does simples come from?

See simple. As an interjection, “Simples!”, a humorous alteration of “Simple!”, was popularised as the broken-English catchphrase of a meerkat character in an advertising campaign for price comparison website comparethemarket.com.