nat
/nɑːt/noun, adjective
nat is spelled N-A-T: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nat means “A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nat is nats.
How many letters and syllables are in nat?
| Letters | 3: N-A-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.6 times per million words; the 10,358th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is nat?
Nat appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th 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 nat?
- /nɑːt/
Nat 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-au-Nat.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-nat.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with nat
Sounds like: gnat (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with nat?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as nat.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tan, ant.
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 nat
- nats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nat mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.
- 2
A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms.
- 3
UScolloquialClipping of natatorium.
- 4
Clipping of nationalist.
noun
- 1
Initialism of nucleic acid test.
- 2
Acronym of network address translation (“network address rewriting”).
- 3
Acronym of network address translator (“device that implements that network function; a NAT firewall”).
- 4
Initialism of nonaccidental trauma.
- 5
Initialism of negative automatic thoughts.
noun
- 1
informalslangA member or supporter of the Australian National Party.
- 2
informalslangA member or supporter of the New Zealand National Party.
- 3
UKinformalslangA member or supporter of the Scottish National Party.
- 4
datedinformalslangA member or supporter of the National Party of South Africa.
adverb
- 1
obsoleteNot.
adjective
- 1
slangClipping of natural (“pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result”).
After rolling a Strength check to move a heavy cabinet, I got a nat 1 and the cabinet fell on me.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does nat come from?
Borrowing from Burmese နတ် (nat).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).