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sleepy

SLEE-pee

sleepee in Ingglish

IPA /ˈslipi/ · 2 syllables

How “sleepy” is spelled in Ingglish

Each letter group of “sleepy” and how Ingglish spells it (an em dash means those letters make no sound)
English	s	l	ee	p	y
Ingglish	s	l	ee	p	ee

“sleepy” sound by sound

Sound-by-sound breakdown of “sleepy”
Ingglish	s	l	ee	p	ee
IPA	/s/	/l/	/i/	/p/	/i/

Sounds: 5 sounds from 6 letters: 2 vowels /i/, /i/ and 3 consonants /s/, /l/, /p/
Syllables: 2 — SLEE · pee, stress on the 1st
Frequency: fairly common: 8.8 uses per million words of film and TV subtitles (SUBTLEX), ranking #4,783 of the 48,804 words on this site
Rhyme ending: /ipi/

Words that rhyme with “sleepy” (/ipi/)

creepy weepy phillippi

“sleepy” — questions & answers

How do you spell “sleepy”?

S-L-E-E-P-Y in English; “sleepee” in Ingglish.

How do you pronounce “sleepy”?

SLEE-pee — IPA /ˈslipi/, 2 syllables, stress on the 1st.

What is the IPA for “sleepy”?

/ˈslipi/ — 2 syllables, stress on the 1st.

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