steps
/stɛps/noun, verb
steps is spelled S-T-E-P-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 54 times per million words in written English, the 1,899th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, steps means “a course followed by a person in walking or as walking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in steps?
| Letters | 5: S-T-E-P-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 54 times per million words; the 1,899th 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 steps?
Steps appears 54 times per million words in written English, the 1,899th 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 steps?
- /stɛps/
Steps 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-steps.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does steps mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
a course followed by a person in walking or as walking
She followed the steps of the girl beside her
- 2
a flight of stairs, especially out of doors
He clumped up the steps.
- 3
UKstepladder
- 4
plural of step.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of step
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).