palette

Other forms of palette

plural

palettes·

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 palette

What does palette mean?

palette means "the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in palette?

palette has 2 syllables: pal-ette. The stress falls on "pal". In IPA it is /ˈpælət/.

What is another word for palette?

Close synonyms include pallet, pallet, pallette. 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 palette a common word?

palette 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.

What rhymes with palette?

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