sports
/spɔːɹts/noun, verb
sports is spelled S-P-O-R-T-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 87 times per million words in written English, the 1,223rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sports means “Synonym of sport (“the class of physical activies; athletics”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sports?
| Letters | 6: S-P-O-R-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 87 times per million words; the 1,223rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is sports?
Sports appears 87 times per million words in written English, the 1,223rd 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 sports?
- /spɔːɹts/
- /spoɹts/
- /spoəts/
Sports 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-sports.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sports.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sports
- sportses present, singular, he/she/it
- sportsing participle, present
- sportsed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sports mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Synonym of sport (“the class of physical activies; athletics”).
- 2
plural of sport
verb
- 1
To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.
- 2
third-person singular simple present indicative of sport
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).