gantlet

Other forms of gantlet

plural

gantlets·

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 gantlet

What does gantlet mean?

gantlet means "to offer or accept a challenge". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gantlet?

gantlet has 2 syllables: gant-let. The stress falls on "gant". In IPA it is /ˈɡɔntlət/.

What is another word for gantlet?

Close synonyms include gauntlet, gauntlet, metal glove, gauntlet, gauntlet. 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 gantlet a common word?

gantlet 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.

What rhymes with gantlet?

1 word rhymes with gantlet. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.