quadruplet

Other forms of quadruplet

plural

quadruplets·

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 quadruplet

What does quadruplet mean?

quadruplet means "the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quadruplet?

quadruplet has 3 syllables: qua-dru-plet. The stress falls on "qua".

What is another word for quadruplet?

Close synonyms include four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern. 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 quadruplet a common word?

quadruplet 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.