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say it: MAL-it
mallet is a noun meaning "a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball
a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mallet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.