vers
/vɝs/adjective, noun
vers is spelled V-E-R-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,187th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, vers means “Willing to take either a penetrative (top) or receptive (bottom) role in anal sex” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in vers?
| Letters | 4: V-E-R-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 43,187th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 vers?
Vers appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,187th 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 vers?
- US /vɝs/
Vers 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)-Persent101-vers.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with vers?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as vers from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹs/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: serv.
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 vers mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Willing to take either a penetrative (top) or receptive (bottom) role in anal sex.
- 2
slangClipping of versatile.
noun
- 1
plural of ver
- 2
Abbreviation of versine or versed sine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vers in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense gay sexual slang: willing to take both a top and bottom role:
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.