quintet

Other forms of quintet

plural

quintets·

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 quintet

What does quintet mean?

quintet means "a musical composition for five performers". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quintet?

quintet has 2 syllables: quin-tet. The stress falls on "tet". In IPA it is /kwɪnˈtɛt/.

What is another word for quintet?

Close synonyms include quintette, five, 5, V, cinque. 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 quintet a common word?

quintet 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.

What rhymes with quintet?

3 words rhyme with quintet. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.