Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mats

/mæts/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables: mats
IPA: /mæts/

6

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of mat

noun

noun

name

Acronym of Military Air Transport Service, a consolidation of the US Navy's Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) and the United States Air Force Transport Command (ATC) that functioned from June 1 1948 to January 1, 1966.

Example Sentences

"There are three Mats in this department."
"At the controls was Capt. Bill Laughlin, a veteran MATS aircraft commander and his chief pilot in the 41st Air Transport Squadron."
"I guess I really learned that a long time ago, when MATS first began teaching me, but I had overlooked it lately."
"For the first ten years of its existence MATS operate with three major air transport divisions that physically circled the globe."

Rhymes With

that's cats stats rats congrats hats bats flats fats katz chats pats

Questions

How do you pronounce mats?: The recorded pronunciation is /mæts/.
What does mats mean?: plural of mat

How to pronounce mats

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