duet

Other forms of duet

plural

duets·

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 duet

What does duet mean?

duet means "two items of the same kind". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in duet?

duet has 2 syllables: du-et. The stress falls on "et". In IPA it is /duˈɛt/.

What is another word for duet?

Close synonyms include couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace. 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 duet a common word?

duet 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 duet?

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