Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

go to sleep

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English

Syllables: go -to sleep
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To fall asleep.

verb

To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.

verb

To die.

Example Sentences

"I go to sleep at the same hour every night, no matter when I go to bed."
"After this, with the disheartening failures after the Railway Mania, railway projection in east Cornwall went to sleep."
"My left leg has gone to sleep!"
"My baby boy, Finnegan, is extremely sick. He isn’t going to make it. I’m with the vet discussing the best course. And… he will be going to sleep."

Inflected Forms

goes to sleep (present, singular) going to sleep (participle, present) went to sleep (past) gone to sleep (participle, past)

Synonyms

fall asleep go to bed turn in bed crawl in kip down hit the hay hit the sack sack out retire

Questions

What does go to sleep mean?: To fall asleep.

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