# sled

> English word · Noun · IPA /slɛd/ · frequency rank #21,659

## Definitions
1. A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
2. A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.
3. A snowmobile.
4. A car (automobile) or truck, usually called so with the implication of sledlike traits: heavy, low-slung, and prone to going fast but not braking or cornering particularly well.

## Etymology
From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.

## Easily confused with
- **sue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-sue)
- **STD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-std)
- **sly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-sly)
- **SPD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-spd)
- **sod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-sod)
- **SSD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-ssd)
- **Syd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-syd)
- **SME** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-sme)
- **SSE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-sse)
- **SLR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-slr)
- **soe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-soe)
- **sud** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-sud)
- **sold** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-sold)
- **slow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-slow)
- **stem** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-stem)
- **sole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-sole)
- **slip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-slip)
- **slot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-slot)
- **slim** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-slim)
- **sued** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sled-vs-sued)

## Common misspellings (6)
`lsed`, `seld`, `slde`, `sledd`, `slled`, `ssled`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sled