SLEET
What does "SLEET" mean?
Precipitation of partly melted snow, or rain mixed with snow, that falls in cold weather.
Meanings
- Rain mixed with snow, or ice pellets formed when raindrops freeze before reaching the ground. The forecast warned of freezing rain turning to sleet by midnight.
- To fall as sleet. It sleeted all afternoon, glazing every branch.
Word origin
From Middle English 'slete', probably from an unrecorded Old English form related to Middle High German 'slōz' (hail) and Old Norse roots for wet weather.
Remember it
SLEET is SLEEP with a T - the weather that keeps you indoors and dozing.
A little poem
Not quite the snow's slow grace,
not quite the rain's clean fall-
the sky split the difference, and missed.
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Wordplay
- Sleet is just rain that couldn't commit to being snow.
What it teaches
Half-measures land hardest: the thing that is neither one nor the other still soaks you through.
Quick facts
What does SLEET mean?
Precipitation of partly melted snow, or rain mixed with snow, that falls in cold weather.
Is SLEET a valid word?
Yes — SLEET is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SLEET?
SLEET has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SLEET come from?
From Middle English 'slete', probably from an unrecorded Old English form related to Middle High German 'slōz' (hail) and Old Norse roots for wet weather.
What can SLEET teach us?
Half-measures land hardest: the thing that is neither one nor the other still soaks you through.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.