sleepover
noun
sleepover is spelled S-L-E-E-P-O-V-E-R: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sleepover means “The act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sleepover is sleepovers.
How many letters and syllables are in sleepover?
| Letters | 9: S-L-E-E-P-O-V-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,789th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sleepover?
Sleepover appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th 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 sleepover?
- US
Sleepover has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-sleepover.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sleepover
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: sleep over (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with sleepover?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sleepover.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: oversleep.
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 sleepover
- sleepovers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sleepover mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children.
- 2
An overnight guest.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sleepover in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the act of spending the night as a guest in another's house:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | soirée pyjama |
| German | Übernachtung |
| Portuguese | festa de pijama |
| Spanish | pijamada, fiesta de pijamas, piyamada |
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 sleepover come from?
From sleep + over.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).