stairs
/ˈstɛɹz/noun
stairs is spelled S-T-A-I-R-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stairs means “A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in stairs?
| Letters | 6: S-T-A-I-R-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,679th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 stairs?
Stairs appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th 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 stairs?
- UK /ˈstɛəz/
- US /ˈstɛɹz/
- Australia /steːz/
Stairs 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-stairs.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with stairs?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stairs from its last stressed vowel (/ɛɹz/):
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 stairs mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.
There're two cats at the top of the stairs.
- 2
plural of stair
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stairs in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense contiguous set of steps:
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.