crotchet

Other forms of crotchet

plural

crotchets·

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 crotchet

What does crotchet mean?

crotchet means "a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crotchet?

crotchet has 2 syllables: crot-chet. The stress falls on "crot".

What is another word for crotchet?

Close synonyms include hook, quarter note, oddity, queerness, quirk. 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 crotchet a common word?

crotchet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.