trumpet

Other forms of trumpet

plural

trumpets·

past tense

trumpetted·

present participle

trumpetting·

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 trumpet

What does trumpet mean?

trumpet means "proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trumpet?

trumpet has 2 syllables: trum-pet. The stress falls on "trum". In IPA it is /ˈtɹʌmpət/.

What is another word for trumpet?

Close synonyms include cornet, horn, trump. 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 trumpet a common word?

trumpet is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.