inlet

Other forms of inlet

plural

inlets·

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 inlet

What does inlet mean?

inlet means "an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inlet?

inlet has 2 syllables: in-let. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnˌlɛt/.

What is another word for inlet?

Close synonyms include recess, intake. 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 inlet a common word?

inlet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 inlet?

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