cleats
/kliːts/noun, verb
cleats is spelled C-L-E-A-T-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cleats means “A pair of athletic shoes equipped with cleats” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in cleats?
| Letters | 6: C-L-E-A-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,636th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is cleats?
Cleats appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th 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 cleats?
- /kliːts/
Cleats has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with cleats?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as cleats.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: castle.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does cleats mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A pair of athletic shoes equipped with cleats.
- 2
plural of cleat
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of cleat
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cleats in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pair of shoes equipped with cleats:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | crampons, chaussures à crampons |
| German | Stollenschuhe |
| Portuguese | chuteiras |
| Spanish | chimpunes |
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.