spet
/spɛt/verb
spet is a verb meaning “To spit; to throw out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-P-E-T, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does spet mean?
verb
- 1
To spit; to throw out.
noun
- 1
obsoletespittle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce spet?
- /spɛt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-spet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of spet
- spets present, singular, he/she/it
- spetting participle, present
- spetted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is spet?
Spet appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).
Where does spet come from?
Inherited from Middle English spet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).