sleet

1. 1.

   partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)

   Broaderprecipitation

1. 1.

   precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow

   “If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet”

   Broaderprecipitate

Other forms of sleet

plural

sleets·

past tense

sleeted·

present participle

sleeting·

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 sleet

What does sleet mean?

sleet means "partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sleet?

sleet has 1 syllable: sleet. In IPA it is /ˈslit/.

Is sleet a common word?

sleet is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.