sonnet

Other forms of sonnet

plural

sonnets·

past tense

sonnetted·

present participle

sonnetting·

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 sonnet

What does sonnet mean?

sonnet means "praise in a sonnet". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sonnet?

sonnet has 2 syllables: son-net. The stress falls on "son". In IPA it is /ˈsɑnɪt/.

Is sonnet a common word?

sonnet 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.