sestet

Other forms of sestet

plural

sestets·

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 sestet

What does sestet mean?

sestet means "the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sestet?

sestet has 2 syllables and divides as se-stet 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.

What is another word for sestet?

Close synonyms include six, 6, VI, sixer, sise. 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 sestet a common word?

sestet 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.