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delts

/dɛlts/noun

delts is a noun meaning “The deltoid muscles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-L-T-S, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does delts mean?

noun

  1. 1

    slangThe deltoid muscles.

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

How do you pronounce delts?

  • /dɛlts/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-delts.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is delts?

Delts appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).

Where does delts come from?

Shortening.

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