Sleet

Definition: Sleet

Sleet

Noun

1. Partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow).

Verb

1. Precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow; "If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet.".

Date "sleet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cold	Ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze, lolly; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; nev_e, serac; pruina.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

A type of precipitation. It is a mix of ice and water, or snow that has been partially melted before settling onto a surface, but especially rain that has frozen.

Crosswords: Sleet

English words defined with "sleet": blasting ♦ come down ♦ depression, downfall ♦ fall ♦ low, low pressure ♦ precipitate, precipitation ♦ ruinous ♦ Sleeted, Sleeting, Snift ♦ Thick squall. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sleet": Borrowed days of March ♦ Cryology ♦ Drinke and Welcome ♦ surface water. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Sleet" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Frisian (demand, sale).

Domain	Title
Books	Fire and Sleet and Candlelight (reference) Junior Science Book of Rain, Hail, Sleet and Snow (reference) The Western New York Weather Guide: A Century of Sun, Snow, Sleet and Rain (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Simon Dach	Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Sleet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.10% of the time. "Sleet" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	79.1%	53	46,657
Noun (proper)	8.96%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	7.46%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.48%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	67	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "sleet" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Sleet	Last name	200	39,196
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "sleet": sleet-driven, sleet-greased, sleet-laden, sleet-scudding, sleet-slickened.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sleet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		miellazë, llohë, boricë, borë me shi, borë e shkrirë (slosh, sludge, slush, snow-broth). (various references)

Arabic		‏مطر متجمد, ‏القطقطية طبقة جليدية رقيقة, ‏ثلج مخلوط بالمطر. (various references)

Bulgarian		суграшица, тънък лед (cat ice), киша (slosh, sludge, slush), лапавица (sludge, slush). (various references)

Chinese		霙 (ancient weight, one-eighth of a tael, snowflakes), 霰 , 雨夹雪. (various references)

Cornish		dowrérgh. (various references)

Czech		pršet se snìhem, plískanice. (various references)

Danish		slud, toesne (wet snow). (various references)

Dutch		natte sneeuw (wet snow). (various references)

Farsi		تگرگ ریزباریدن , بوران (Squall), برف وباران . (various references)

Finnish		räntä (wet snow). (various references)

French		neige fondue, neige � moitié fondue. (various references)

German		schneeregen geben, schneeregen, Schlossen, nasser Schnee. (various references)

Greek		χιονόνερο (slush), νερόχιονο. (various references)

Hebrew		של�' מימי (slush), �'שם קרחי. (various references)

Hungarian		dara (breeze, grist). (various references)

Indonesian		hujan salju dan air. (various references)

Irish		flichshneachta. (various references)

Italian		nevischio (snow flurry). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		霙 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		みぞれ. (various references)

Korean		진눈깨비. (various references)

Manx		sniaghtey fliugh, fliugh-niaghtee, ceau fliugh-niaghtee. (various references)

Pig Latin		eetslay

Portuguese		neve molhada (wet snow), chuva com neve, cair (collapse, drop, fall, flump, founder, go forward, hang, keel over, lapse, pelt, plump, prey, prostrate, sink, topple). (various references)

Romanian		zloatã, ploaie cu zãpadã, mãzãriche (Vetch), lapoviţã. (various references)

Russian		дождь со снегом. (various references)

Scottish		glìb (sleet glibshleamhuinn), cl� mhuinn. (various references)

Sepedi		lehlwapula. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		susnežica, snežiti. (various references)

Spanish		aguanieve (melt-water). (various references)

Swedish		snöblandat regn. (various references)

Thai		แผ่นน้ำแข็งบางที่ปกคลุมตามพื้นหรือต้นไม้, ฝนลูกเห็บ, ตกเป็นลูกเห็บ. (various references)

Turkish		sulusepken yağmak, sulusepken, sulu kar yağmak, sulu kar (slush, soft hail), karla karışık yağmur. (various references)

Ukrainian		сльота (slop, slush), крижана кірка, дощ зі снігом. (various references)

Vietnamese		mưa tuyết (ice-rain, snow-fall). (various references)

Welsh		odlaw, eirlaw. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sleet": sleeted, sleetier, sleetiest, sleeting, sleets, sleety. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sleet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aleet, cleet, eleet, eslet, gleet, lsleten, Osleset, oslet, Seet, Selket, selset, slaut, slea, sleapt, sleat, Sleath, sleech, sleed, sleept, sleete, sleev, slei, slej, slent, sleq, slet, sleut, slewt, slex, slite, sloet, slyt, slyth, smeet, sneet, Soete, spleef, spleet, Steet, sylheti, Zulueta. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sleet" (pronounced slē"t)
3	-l ē" t	cleat, complete, delete, deplete, elite, fleet, incomplete, leet, pleat, replete.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: leets, steel, stele, teels, teles.
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-s-t"
	-1 letter: eels, else, lees, leet, lest, lets, seel, teel, tees, tele, tels.
	-2 letters: eel, els, lee, let, see, sel, set, tee, tel.
	-3 letters: el, es, et.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-s-t"
	+1 letter: betels, elates, eldest, elects, elites, elutes, fleets, gleets, lethes, listee, nestle, pestle, relets, select, settle, sleets, sleety, steels, steely, stelae, steles, streel, svelte, teasel.
	+2 letters: beetles, belters, bethels, boletes, celesta, celeste, delates, deletes, eaglets, eeliest, elaters, elegist, elegits, elmiest, eluates, eluents, epistle, etoiles, eustele, evilest, eyelets, fellest, felsite, fettles, gelates, gentles, helmets, kelters, kestrel, kettles, lateens, latexes, leanest, leftest, lefties, legates, leister, letches, letters, lewdest, liefest, lievest, lisente, listees, melters, mettles, nestled, nestler, nestles, netless, nettles, oleates, omelets, pelites, pellets, pelmets, pelters, pestled, pestles, petrels, pettles, realest, reflets, reglets, relates, relents, remelts, reslate, resmelt, respelt, restyle, retells, retiles, sectile, segetal, selects, seltzer, setline, settled, settler, settles, sextile, shelter, sheltie, shtetel, skelter, sleekit, sleeted, smelted, smelter, soleret, spelter, stealer, steeled, steelie, steeple, steeply, stelene, sterile, sterlet, streels, svelter, sweetly, swelter, teasels, teazels, teazles, teledus, telegas, teleost, teleses, telesis, telexes, telfers, tellers, tellies, telnets, telomes, teloses, temples, tensely, tensile, tercels, tersely, tieless, toeless, trebles, tressel, trestle, twelves, unsteel, velites, velvets, welters, wrestle.
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