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say it: TRI-pluht
triplet is a noun meaning "the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one". It is pronounced /ˈtɹɪplət/ — TRI-pluht. It carries 3 recorded senses.
one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for triplet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.