sleep together

verb

"sleep-together" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“sleep together” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To have sex with each other.

Corpus desk

Index EN-sleep-together · sleep together · English

sleep together · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for sleep together
PropertyValue
Headwordsleep together
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “sleep together” in English

sleep togetherranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sleep together is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for sleep together in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is sleep together, spelled S-L-E-E-P- -T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    To have sex with each other.
  2. 2
    To be intimate with each other in the same bed.
  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sleep, together.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sleep together appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The twins slept together, the straw doll between them.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sleep together"?
"sleep together" is spelled S-L-E-E-P- -T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R.
What does "sleep together" mean?
As a verb, "sleep together" means: To have sex with each other.
What language does "sleep together" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list