thanks

Questions about thanks

What does thanks mean?

thanks means "an acknowledgment of appreciation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thanks?

thanks has 1 syllable: thanks. In IPA it is /ˈθæŋks/.

Is thanks a common word?

thanks is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.