nets
/nɛts/noun, verb
nets is spelled N-E-T-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nets means “A training session before playing a cricket match for both bowlers and batsmen or even backups” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in nets?
| Letters | 4: N-E-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.5 times per million words; the 9,463rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 nets?
Nets appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd 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 nets?
- /nɛts/
Nets 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-nets.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with nets?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as nets.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sent, nest, tens, sten, snet.
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 nets mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of net
- 2
A training session before playing a cricket match for both bowlers and batsmen or even backups.
He hit the nets seven hours before the cricket match.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of net
noun
- 1
plural of NET
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).