groundsheet
noun
groundsheet is a noun meaning “A sheet of waterproof material that is spread on the ground, often beneath a tent, and upon which a person may sit or sleep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-O-U-N-D-S-H-E-E-T, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of groundsheet is groundsheets.
What does groundsheet mean?
noun
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A sheet of waterproof material that is spread on the ground, often beneath a tent, and upon which a person may sit or sleep.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of groundsheet
- groundsheets plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is groundsheet?
Groundsheet appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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 groundsheet come from?
From ground + sheet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).