bayonet

Questions about bayonet

What does bayonet mean?

bayonet means "a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bayonet?

bayonet has 3 syllables: ba-yo-net. The stress falls on "ba". In IPA it is /ˈbeɪəˌnɛt/.

Is bayonet a common word?

bayonet is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 bayonet?

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