wet season

noun

"wet-season" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“wet season” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Especially in tropical regions, the part of the year when most of the rain falls.

Key facts for wet season
PropertyValue
Headwordwet season
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “wet season” sits in English frequency

wet season falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

wet season is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Especially in tropical regions, the part of the year when most of the rain falls.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for wet season in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is wet season, spelled W-E-T- -S-E-A-S-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Especially in tropical regions, the part of the year when most of the rain falls.

Synonyms

monsoonmonsoon seasonrainy season

Antonyms

dry season

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wet season"?
"wet season" is spelled W-E-T- -S-E-A-S-O-N.
What does "wet season" mean?
As a noun, "wet season" means: Especially in tropical regions, the part of the year when most of the rain falls.
What language does "wet season" come from?
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Using “wet season”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is W-E-T- -S-E-A-S-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list