sleet
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounPellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
- verbTo be in a state in which sleet is falling.
Example:
I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.
- nounPrecipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,879 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 72% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 4 · Repeated letters: e