snee
/sniː/obsolete
snee is spelled S-N-E-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, snee means “A large knife” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of snee is snees.
How many letters and syllables are in snee?
| Letters | 4: S-N-E-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 30 million words; the 167,786th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is snee?
Snee appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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 snee?
- US /sniː/
Snee has one syllable (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)-Vealhurl-snee.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with snee?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as snee from its last stressed vowel (/i/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: seen, sene.
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).
What does snee mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteA large knife.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does snee come from?
Compare Dutch snee, snede, and German Schneide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).