sleety

1. 1.

   consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain

   Similarfrozen

Other forms of sleety

comparative

sleetier·

superlative

sleetiest·

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 sleety

What does sleety mean?

sleety means "consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain".

How many syllables are in sleety?

sleety has 2 syllables: slee-ty. The stress falls on "slee".

Is sleety a common word?

sleety 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.