wings
/wɪŋz/noun, verb
wings is spelled W-I-N-G-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wings means “A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in wings?
| Letters | 5: W-I-N-G-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 28 times per million words; the 3,364th 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 wings?
Wings appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th 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 wings?
- /wɪŋz/
Wings 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-wings.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with wings?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as wings.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: swing.
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 wings mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing
- 2
A flip (hairstyle).
Near-synonym: head wings
- 3
A pilot's license, the legal authorization to operate an aircraft.
After being found liable for the crash that killed several passengers, the captain of the downed airliner lost his wings.
- 4
plural of wing
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of wing
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).