pentameter

1. 1.

   a verse line having five metrical feet

   Broaderverse

Other forms of pentameter

plural

pentameters·

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 pentameter

What does pentameter mean?

pentameter means "a verse line having five metrical feet".

How many syllables are in pentameter?

pentameter has 4 syllables and divides as pen-ta-me-ter under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.