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say it: BER-uh-nuht
baronet is a noun meaning "a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight". It is pronounced /ˈbɛɹənət/ — BER-uh-nuht. It carries one recorded sense.
a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight
“since he was a baronet he had to be addressed as Sir Henry Jones, Bart.”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for baronet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.