sextuplet

Other forms of sextuplet

plural

sextuplets·

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 sextuplet

What does sextuplet mean?

sextuplet means "the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one".

How many syllables are in sextuplet?

sextuplet has 3 syllables: sex-tup-let. The stress falls on "tup". In IPA it is /ˌsɛkˈstʌplɛt/.

What is another word for sextuplet?

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 sextuplet a common word?

sextuplet 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.