meet
/mit/verb, noun
meet is spelled M-E-E-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 186 times per million words in written English, the 546th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “meat vs meet” about 590 times a month (Google, United States). As a verb, meet means “To come face to face with by accident; to encounter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in meet?
| Letters | 4: M-E-E-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 186 times per million words; the 546th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is meet?
Meet appears 186 times per million words in written English, the 546th 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 meet?
- UK /miːt/
- US /mit/
Meet 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). Recordings: En-uk-to_meet.ogg, En-us-meet.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with meet
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: meat, mete (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: mete.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with meet?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as meet from its last stressed vowel (/it/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: mete, teem, teme.
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 meet
- meets present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- meeting participle, present
- met participle, past
- meeter comparative
- meetest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does meet mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
- 2
To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
- 3
To get acquainted with someone.
I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
- 4
To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
- 5
To come together in conflict.
- 6
To play a match.
England and Holland will meet in the final.
- 7
To converge and finally touch or intersect.
The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
- 8
To touch or hit something while moving.
The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
noun
- 1
A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
track meet
- 2
A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- 3
A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- 4
informalA meeting.
OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
- 5
The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
adjective
- 1
archaicSuitable; right; proper.
- 2
obsoleteSubmissive; passive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Meet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rencontrer , se retrouver, se rejoindre, se donner rendez-vous , faire la connaissance de |
| German | treffen, begegnen , kennen lernen , aufeinandertreffen , recht |
| Portuguese | encontrar , conhecer , reunir , satisfazer |
| Spanish | encontrar, encontrarse con , encontrarse, quedar , conocer , reunirse |
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 meet come from?
From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).