Definitions for sleets

sleets sleet

Spelling: [sleet]
IPA: /slit/

Sleets is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in sleets (eelsst).

Definitions for sleets

noun

  1. precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
  2. glaze (def 17).
  3. Chiefly British. a mixture of rain and snow.

verb (used without object)

  1. to send down sleet.
  2. to fall as or like sleet.

Origin of sleets

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English slete; akin to Low German slote, German Schlossen hail; (v.) Middle English sleten, derivative of the noun

Examples for sleets

“Rain, sleet, snow, shark, alien invasions, whatever,” Dobles says.

But in spite of snow and sleet we filled our days to the brim.

sleet an' rain minglin', an' porridge ice slammin' ont' shore!

In the past 63 years—through rain, sleet, snow, and bone-chilling cold—there have been 15 inaugural parades.

sleet is rain mixed with snow; there are pellet like snowflakes that fall between warming and cooling fronts.

The weather had been stormy, with frequent showers of sleet and snow.

Then the sleet came pouring down and shut everything from sight.

Failure to act could do what rain, sleet, and snow have failed to do--stop the delivery of the mail.

A gust of wind and sleet rushed through the opening and stung their faces.

Later, men soaked in sleet walked along the Garden Ring, oblivious to the weather and glowing with happy smiles.

Word Value for sleets
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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