glasses

Other forms of glasses

plural

glasseses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about glasses

What does glasses mean?

glasses means "(plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision".

How many syllables are in glasses?

glasses has 2 syllables: glas-ses. The stress falls on "glas". In IPA it is /ˈɡlæsəz/.

What is another word for glasses?

Close synonyms include spectacles, specs, eyeglasses. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glasses a common word?

glasses is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with glasses?

1 word rhymes with glasses. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.