tons
/tʌnz/noun
tons is spelled T-O-N-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tons means “plural of ton” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in tons?
| Letters | 4: T-O-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 29 times per million words; the 3,218th 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 tons?
Tons appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th 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 tons?
- /tʌnz/
Tons 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-tons.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with tons?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tons.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: snot.
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 tons mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of ton
- 2
colloquialLots; large quantities or numbers (of people or things).
I have tons of pens, but none of them work.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).