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

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

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

4 syllables:
parallel bars, authorized shares, entrepreneurs, man of affairs, musical chairs, 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