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ept

verb, adjective

ept is spelled E-P-T: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, ept means “simple past of eep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in ept?

Letters3: E-P-T
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 82,325th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is ept?

Ept appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th 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).

What rhymes with ept?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ept.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: pet.

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).

Forms of ept

  • more ept comparative
  • most ept superlative

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

What does ept mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    simple past of eep (a form of eep)

adjective

  1. 1

    nonstandardSkillful and knowledgeable; adept.

noun

as EPT
  1. 1

    informalA European Poker Tour event.

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

Where does ept come from?

Formed by analogy with slept.

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

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