claret

Other forms of claret

plural

clarets·

past tense

claretted·

present participle

claretting·

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 claret

What does claret mean?

claret means "a dark purplish-red color". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in claret?

claret has 2 syllables: cla-ret. The stress falls on "cla".

What is another word for claret?

Close synonyms include red Bordeaux. 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 claret a common word?

claret is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.