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bedsheet

UK /ˈbɛdʃiːt/noun

bedsheet is spelled B-E-D-S-H-E-E-T: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bedsheet means “A sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bedsheet is bedsheets.

How many letters and syllables are in bedsheet?

Letters8: B-E-D-S-H-E-E-T
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 86,301st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is bedsheet?

Bedsheet appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce bedsheet?

  • UK /ˈbɛdʃiːt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-bedsheet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with bedsheet

Also written: bed-sheet (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of bedsheet

  • bedsheets plural
  • bed sheet

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does bedsheet mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Bedsheet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen:

LanguageWords
Frenchdrap, drap de lit
GermanBettlaken, Bettzeug, Laken, Leintuch
Portugueselençol
Spanishsábana

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does bedsheet come from?

From Middle English bedeschette, bedshete, bed shete, equivalent to bed + sheet.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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