pentangle

1. 1.

   a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon

   Synonymspentaclepentagram

   Broaderstar

Other forms of pentangle

plural

pentangles·

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 pentangle

What does pentangle mean?

pentangle means "a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon".

How many syllables are in pentangle?

pentangle has 3 syllables: pen-tan-gle. The stress falls on "pen".

What is another word for pentangle?

Close synonyms include pentacle, pentagram. 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 pentangle a common word?

pentangle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.