How Many Syllables Are in Customs

The word Customs has three syllables: cus-toms.
Syllable division helps in understanding the word's structure, improving both pronunciation and spelling.
This technique is especially useful for students and language learners who are mastering English phonetics.

Definition of Customs

Customs are the official department that examines goods coming into a country and collects taxes on them.

How should Customs divide into syllables

There are 2 syllables. 'Cus' has a consonant (c) and a vowel (u) and 'toms' has a consonant (t/m/s) and a vowel (o).

Part of Speech - Customs

The customs officer checked my bags at the airport.

Sentences with Customs

• The customs officer at the border asked to see my passport.
• We had to pay customs fees on the items we bought from overseas.
• Customs can be a long and tedious process when traveling.
• The customs department is responsible for enforcing trade regulations.
• Customs officials can search your luggage if they suspect you are carrying illegal items.
• It's important to declare all goods when going through customs.
• The customs house is where goods are inspected and taxed.
• Customs regulations vary from country to country.
• We had to fill out a customs declaration form before entering the country.
• The customs agent stamped my passport and let me through.

Quotes with Customs

• Customs form the habits of nations; and those who travel abroad, instead of carrying nothing but their prejudices, generally bring back from the place they have visited a great number of new ideas.
• Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.
• Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
• A people who would stand fast in their liberty, should furnish themselves with weapons proper for their defense, and learn the use of them.
• The strength and power of a country lies not in its armies or navies, but in its money bags.
• Commerce is the lifeblood of nations.
• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
• Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.
• The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
• The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve to a man's self a fair retreat. For if a man engage himself by a manifest declaration, he must go through or take a fall. The third is the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

Number of characters in Customs

7 ( c, u, s, t, o, m, s )

Unique letters in Customs

6 ( c, u, s, t, o, m )

Customs Backwards

smotsuc

How to Pronounce Customs

IPA (International): ˈkʌstʌmz

ARA (American): ˈkʌstʌmz

EPA (English): ˈkʌstʌmz

KAH-STAH-MZ