spilt
/spɪlt/adjective, verb
spilt is spelled S-P-I-L-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, spilt means “That has been spilled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in spilt?
| Letters | 5: S-P-I-L-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 32,393rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is spilt?
Spilt appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd 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 spilt?
- /spɪlt/
Spilt 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)-Wodencafe-spilt.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-spilt.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with spilt?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as spilt.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: split.
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 spilt
- spilled
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does spilt mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
That has been spilled.
Don't cry over spilt milk; tears won't put it back in the glass.
verb
- 1
UKsimple past and past participle of spill
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does spilt come from?
From spill + -t.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).