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

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

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

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

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