sheets
/ʃits/noun, verb
sheets is spelled S-H-E-E-T-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sheets means “Of rain or other precipitation, a great amount” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sheets?
| Letters | 6: S-H-E-E-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is sheets?
Sheets appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th 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 sheets?
- UK /ʃiːts/
- US /ʃits/
Sheets has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-sheets.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does sheets mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
informalOf rain or other precipitation, a great amount.
When I looked out, all I could see were sheets of rain.
- 2
plural of sheet
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of sheet
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).