met
/mɛt/verb
met is spelled M-E-T: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 123 times per million words in written English, the 851st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, met means “simple past and past participle of meet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in met?
| Letters | 3: M-E-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 123 times per million words; the 851st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 met?
Met appears 123 times per million words in written English, the 851st 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 met?
- /mɛt/
Met 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-us-met.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with met?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as met from its last stressed vowel (/ɛt/, British pronunciation):
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 met mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of meet
- 2
obsoleteTo dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.
noun
- 1
informalA Metropolitan line train.
- 2
A player for the New York Mets.
noun
- 1
Initialism of metabolic equivalent of task, a measure of the intensity of aerobic exercise.
- 2
Abbreviation of methylethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic tryptamine.
- 3
Abbreviation of methionine, an essential nonpolar amino acid.
- 4
The gene symbol for C-Met, a proto-oncogene in human biology.
- 5
Initialism of mesenchymal–epithelial transition.
- 6
Initialism of motivational enhancement therapy, used in treatment of drug abuse and mental illness to help people in denial accept treatment.
- 7
Initialism of muscle energy technique, a neuromuscular protocol used in osteopathy, physical therapy, and massage therapy.
- 8
Initialism of Mission Elapsed Time.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).