hamlet

Other forms of hamlet

plural

hamlets·

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 hamlet

What does hamlet mean?

hamlet means "a community of people smaller than a village". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hamlet?

hamlet has 2 syllables: ham-let. The stress falls on "ham". In IPA it is /ˈhæmlət/.

What is another word for hamlet?

Close synonyms include crossroads, village. 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 hamlet a common word?

hamlet 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.