millet

Other forms of millet

plural

millets·

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 millet

What does millet mean?

millet means "any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in millet?

millet has 2 syllables: mil-let. The stress falls on "mil". In IPA it is /ˈmɪlət/.

What is another word for millet?

Close synonyms include Jean Francois Millet. 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 millet a common word?

millet 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.