sextet

Other forms of sextet

plural

sextets·

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 sextet

What does sextet mean?

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

How many syllables are in sextet?

sextet has 2 syllables: sex-tet. The stress falls on "tet". In IPA it is /ˌsɛkˈstɛt/.

What is another word for sextet?

Close synonyms include sextette, sestet, six, 6, VI. 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 sextet a common word?

sextet 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.

What rhymes with sextet?

1 word rhymes with sextet. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.