steals
/stiːlz/noun, verb
steals is spelled S-T-E-A-L-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.2 times per million words in written English, the 10,843rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, steals means “The number of stolen bases by a baserunner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in steals?
| Letters | 6: S-T-E-A-L-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.2 times per million words; the 10,843rd 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 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 steals?
Steals appears 5.2 times per million words in written English, the 10,843rd 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 steals?
- /stiːlz/
Steals 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).
What rhymes with steals?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as steals.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tassel.
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 steals mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
informalThe number of stolen bases by a baserunner.
He has 25 steals this year.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of steal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).