seat
/siːt/noun, verb
seat is spelled S-E-A-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 66 times per million words in written English, the 1,602nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, seat means “Something to be sat upon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of seat is seats.
How many letters and syllables are in seat?
| Letters | 4: S-E-A-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 66 times per million words; the 1,602nd 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; 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 seat?
Seat appears 66 times per million words in written English, the 1,602nd 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 seat?
- /siːt/
Seat has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-seat.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with seat?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as seat (/eɪæt/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: east, eats, sate, seta, tase.
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 seat
- seats plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- seating participle, present
- seated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does seat mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Something to be sat upon.
- 2
A place in which to sit.
There are two hundred seats in this classroom.
- 3
The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat, which always annoyed his mother.
- 4
A piece of furniture made for sitting, such as a chair, stool, or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down.
- 5
slangAn ejection seat.
Hey, fighter boy, our radar's putting out enough energy to launch your seat from this distance!
- 6
The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair".
- 7
The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.
- 8
A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
The seat of the valve had become corroded.
verb
- 1
To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
- 2
To provide with a place to sit.
This classroom seats two hundred students.
- 3
To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.
- 4
To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.
- 5
To assign the seats of.
to seat a church
- 6
To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
This valve isn't seating properly.
- 7
obsoleteTo rest; to lie down.
- 8
To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
to seat a country
noun
- 1
USAcronym of single-engine air tanker.
- 2
An automobile from Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Seat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | place , siège m chaise , assise , séant, siège , fond |
| German | Sitz, Sitzplatz, Sitzgelegenheit , Stuhl, Sitzmöbel, Gestühl |
| Portuguese | lugar, assento , fundilhos |
| Spanish | asiento, curul, escaño, sitial , butaca, dúho |
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 seat come from?
From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); compare Old English set (“seat”). Noun sense 2 (“location or site”) is probably derived from Old English sǣte (“house”), which is related to Old High German sāza (“sedan, seat, domicile”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).