tights

/taɪts/noun, verb

tights is spelled T-I-G-H-T-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 19,825th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tights means “A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in tights?

Letters	6: T-I-G-H-T-S
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	1.9 times per million words; the 19,825th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	brights

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 tights?

Tights appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 19,825th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce tights?

US /taɪts/
British /tɑjts/
Australia /tɑets/

Tights 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-tights.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with tights?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tights from its last stressed vowel (/aɪts/):

brights

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 tights mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet.
2
A similar, non-sheer garment worn by dancers of either sex, especially by ballet dancers.
3
A garment, similar to briefs, worn chiefly by professional wrestlers.
4
In blasting rock, a piece of unbroken rock within the pay limit of a blast.

verb

1
third-person singular simple present indicative of tight (a form of tight)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Tights in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	collant (women's garment – see also pantyhose)
German	Strumpfhose (women's garment – see also pantyhose)
Portuguese	meia-calça, colãs (women's garment – see also pantyhose)
Spanish	panti, pantimedia (women's garment – see also pantyhose), malla (dancer's garment)

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.

Where does tights come from?

From tight + -s.