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sleepies

noun

sleepies is spelled S-L-E-E-P-I-E-S: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sleepies means “Sleep (mucus in the eyes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sleepies is the sleepies.

How many letters and syllables are in sleepies?

Letters8: S-L-E-E-P-I-E-S
In writingabout once in every 74 million words; the 272,462nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 sleepies?

Sleepies appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 sleepies?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-sleepies.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of sleepies

  • the sleepies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sleepies mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    informalSleep (mucus in the eyes).

  2. 2

    informalSleepiness, tiredness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does sleepies come from?

From sleep + -ies.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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