pleat

Other forms of pleat

plural

pleats·

past tense

pleated·

present participle

pleating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pleat

What does pleat mean?

pleat means "pleat or gather into a ruffle". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pleat?

pleat has 1 syllable: pleat. In IPA it is /ˈplit/.

What is another word for pleat?

Close synonyms include ruffle, plicate, plait. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pleat a common word?

pleat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pleat?

5 words rhyme with pleat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.