ballet

Other forms of ballet

plural

ballets·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ballet

What does ballet mean?

ballet means "a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ballet?

ballet has 2 syllables: bal-let. The stress falls on "let". In IPA it is /bæˈleɪ/.

What is another word for ballet?

Close synonyms include concert dance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ballet a common word?

ballet is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ballet?

21 words rhyme with ballet. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.