poet

Other forms of poet

plural

poets·

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 poet

What does poet mean?

poet means "a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)".

How many syllables are in poet?

poet has 2 syllables: po-et. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpoʊət/.

Is poet a common word?

poet is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.