spades
/speɪdz/noun, verb
spades is spelled S-P-A-D-E-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spades means “One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in spades?
| Letters | 6: S-P-A-D-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 24,170th 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 spades?
Spades appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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 spades?
- US /speɪdz/
Spades 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-spades.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with spades?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as spades from its last stressed vowel (/eɪdz/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: passed.
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 spades mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.
- 2
A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.
- 3
plural of spade
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of spade
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Spades in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense suit of playing cards:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.