things
/ˈθɪŋz/noun, verb
things is spelled T-H-I-N-G-S. The wrong spelling people search most is thigns: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 196 of all searches for the word. Things is a noun meaning “One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff”.
How many letters and syllables are in things?
| Letters | 6: T-H-I-N-G-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 550 times per million words; the 179th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, thigns, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell things?
Things is spelled T-H-I-N-G-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 197 of the searches for things in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is things?
Things appears 550 times per million words in written English, the 179th 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 things?
- /ˈθɪŋz/
Things 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-things.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with things?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as things.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: nights.
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 things mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff
Have you brought all your things with you?
- 2
The general state of affairs in a given context, e.g. one's relationship
Things have been rough between lately.
- 3
plural of thing
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of thing
noun
- 1
plural of Thing
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).