1 syllable:
.gears, beer's, beers, beers', beerse, beres, biers, blears, briers, cheers, clears, dears, deere's, deers, ears, fears, fiers, fleers, frears, freres, friers, gear's, gears, geres, grier's, hears, here's, heres, hiers, jeers, lear's, lears, leers, meares, mears, meres, mieres, mir's, nears, peers, piers, queers, rears, schweers, sears, sears', sears's, seers, seres, shear's, shears, sheers, siers, smears, sneers, spears, speers, speirs, spheres, stears, steers, sweers, tears, thiers, three rs, tiers, veers, veres, viers, weir's, weirs, wiers, xeres, year's, years, years'

2 syllables:
adheres, alferes, algiers, ameers, amir's, amirs, appears, arrears, asnieres, baleares, barbiers, bassir's, besmears, careers, cashier's, cashiers, coheirs, coheres, compeers, comperes, debeers, destriers, dog-ears, endears, enspheres, foreseers, frontier's, frontiers, gottscheers, greenbriers, guinier's, hyeres, inheres, john peers, killdeers, lanciers, lightyears, menhirs, mezieres, miears, minquiers, misereres, mishears, new year's, oospheres, osiers, outwears, pamirs, pig's ears, premier's, premieres, premiers, proceres, rentiers, reveres, shakespeare's, shakespeares, shamir's, sightseers, stupefiers, tangiers, tarsiers, tuyeres, unspheres, uprears, valkyrs, veneers, viziers, wazir's, wheatears, zaire's, zaires

3 syllables:
auctioneers, balladeers, bandoleers, bandoliers, bathyspheres, belvederes, bioneers, bombardiers, brachypteres, brigadiers, buccaneers, budgeteers, cameleers, cannoneers, carbineers, cavaliers, chanticleers, chevaliers, chocolatiers, comandeers, commandeers, desrosiers, diapirs, disappears, domineers, engineer's, engineers, engineers', etageres, financiers, fusileers, gadgeteers, gazetteers, gondoliers, halberdiers, helicteres, interferes, in arrears, in both ears, junketeers, list of years, loveppears, macropteres, marketeers, microspheres, montgolfiers, muleteers, musketeers, mutineers, overhears, pamphleteers, perseveres, photospheres, pinnotheres, pioneer's, pioneers, pistoleers, planispheres, pleuroderes, pluroderes, presbyters, privateers, profiteers, pruning shears, puppeteers, quinquevirs, rabbitears, rabbit ears, racketeers, reappears, rhizospheres, richard briers, rocketeers, ronald speirs, ruby-spears, scrutineers, sloganeers, sonneteers, souvenirs, stratospheres, summiteers, tears for fears, timnath-heres, to both ears, volunteers, wagoneers, xenogears

4 syllables:
boulevardiers, carabineers, charioteers, conventioneers, electioneers, james parnell spears, lammergeiers, magnetospheres, milliamperes

5 syllables:
bioengineers, charleville-mezieres, elegant cat's ears, music of the spheres, tessarakonteres, wet behind the ears

6 syllables:
march of the volunteers, tampa bay buccaneers

1 syllable:
airs, ares, bars, bears, car's, cares, cars, chairs, chores, corps, cures, doors, drawers, ers, fares, fires, floors, fours, furze, gerres, gore's, hairs, heirs, hers, hires, hours, mars, ours, pairs, poor's, prayers, r.'s, r.s, scares, scars, scores, shares, shores, slurs, squares, stairs, star's, stars, stores, theirs, there's, tours, war's, wares, wars, wears, where's, wires, yours

2 syllables:
affairs, all fours, azores, cigars, compares, declares, downstairs, explores, guitars, ignores, inspires, job's tears, least squares, occurs, outdoors, prefers, prepares, raptores, refers, repairs, requires, small stores, transfers, upstairs, velours, weltschmerz

3 syllables:
baby's tears, baby tears, balkan wars, charge d'affaires, chest of drawers, common shares, down the stairs, flight of stairs, golden stars, intra vires, kick downstairs, kick upstairs, millionaires, npr's, out-of-doors, out of doors, preferred shares, punic wars, put on airs, questionnaires, stars and bars, superstars, ultra vires, unawares, underscores, up the stairs, world affairs

4 syllables:
authorized shares, entrepreneurs, man of affairs, musical chairs, parallel bars, preference shares, put behind bars, sincerely yours, state of affairs, treasury shares

5 syllables:
anterior nares, method of least squares, ordinary shares, posterior nares

6 syllables:
napoleonic wars

7 syllables:
international affairs, master in public affairs, veterans of foreign wars

9 syllables:
department of veterans affairs

10 syllables:
secretary of veterans affairs