piles

Other forms of piles

plural

pileses·

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 piles

What does piles mean?

piles means "venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piles?

piles has 1 syllable: piles. In IPA it is /ˈpaɪlz/.

What is another word for piles?

Close synonyms include hemorrhoid, haemorrhoid, tons, dozens, heaps. 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 piles a common word?

piles is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.