sextant

Other forms of sextant

plural

sextants·

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 sextant

What does sextant mean?

sextant means "a unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sextant?

sextant has 2 syllables and divides as sex-tant 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.

Is sextant a common word?

sextant 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.