sport
/spoɹt/noun, verb
sport is spelled S-P-O-R-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 54 times per million words in written English, the 1,899th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sport means “Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sport is sports.
How many letters and syllables are in sport?
| Letters | 5: S-P-O-R-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 54 times per million words; the 1,899th 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 sport?
Sport appears 54 times per million words in written English, the 1,899th 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 sport?
- UK /spɔːt/
- British /spoːt/
- US /spoɹt/
Sport 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: En-us-sport.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sport?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sport from its last stressed vowel (/oɹt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ports, strop.
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 sport
- sports plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sporting participle, present
- sported participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sport mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
Basketball is her favorite sport, and she also enjoys various other sports as well.
- 2
A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.
- 3
Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.
- 4
archaicSomething fun, pastime; amusement.
The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
- 5
archaicMockery, making fun; derision.
- 6
A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- 7
Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
- 8
A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
verb
- 1
To amuse oneself, to play.
children sporting on the green
- 2
To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
- 3
To display; to have as a notable feature.
Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat
- 4
To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- 5
To represent by any kind of play.
- 6
To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- 7
To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
- 8
archaicTo close (a door).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sport in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sport , flirt , jouer , taquiner, moquer |
| German | Sport , spielen, sich vergnügen, herumtollen , Sportsmann, Sportsfrau |
| Portuguese | esporte, desporto , recrear-se , zombar |
| Spanish | deporte, sport , deportista , juguete, burla , espécimen raro |
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.