pellet

Other forms of pellet

plural

pellets·

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 pellet

What does pellet mean?

pellet means "a small sphere". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pellet?

pellet has 2 syllables: pel-let. The stress falls on "pel". In IPA it is /ˈpɛlət/.

What is another word for pellet?

Close synonyms include shot. 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 pellet a common word?

pellet 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.