eyelet

Other forms of eyelet

plural

eyelets·

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 eyelet

What does eyelet mean?

eyelet means "a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eyelet?

eyelet has 2 syllables: eye-let. The stress falls on "eye". In IPA it is /ˈaɪlət/.

What is another word for eyelet?

Close synonyms include eyehole, cringle, loop, grommet, grummet. 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 eyelet a common word?

eyelet 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.