Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sleepies

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English

Syllables
sleepies
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Sleep (mucus in the eyes).

Informal

noun

Sleepiness, tiredness.

Informal

Etymology

From sleep + -ies.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

the sleepies (canonical, plural)

Synonyms

sleep and Thesaurus:fatigue

Questions

What does sleepies mean?
Sleep (mucus in the eyes).
Where does sleepies come from?
From sleep + -ies.

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