tails
/teɪlz/noun, verb
tails is spelled T-A-I-L-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tails means “Clipping of tailcoat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in tails?
| Letters | 5: T-A-I-L-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.8 times per million words; the 11,541st 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 tails?
Tails appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st 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 tails?
- /teɪlz/
Tails 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-au-tails.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with tails?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tails.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: alist, litas.
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 tails mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangClipping of tailcoat.
- 2
The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.
Tails, I win.
- 3
Tailings; waste.
- 4
Tailings, feints.
- 5
plural of tail
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of tail
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tails in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense side of coin:
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.