tens
noun
tens is spelled T-E-N-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.8 times per million words in written English, the 8,417th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tens means “An inexact quantity or number, typically understood to be between 10 or 20 and 100” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in tens?
| Letters | 4: T-E-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.8 times per million words; the 8,417th 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 tens?
Tens appears 7.8 times per million words in written English, the 8,417th 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 tens?
Tens 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 tens?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tens.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sent, nest, nets, sten, snet.
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 tens mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An inexact quantity or number, typically understood to be between 10 or 20 and 100.
Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
- 2
slangA pair of tens.
- 3
The period from a year ending in 10 to a year ending in 19 (mostly referring to the 1910s or 2010s); the teens, the oneties.
- 4
plural of ten
noun
- 1
Initialism of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
- 2
Abbreviation of toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tens in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense plural of 'approximately ten':
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dizaine |
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.