valet

Other forms of valet

plural

valets·

past tense

valetted·

present participle

valetting·

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 valet

What does valet mean?

valet means "a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in valet?

valet has 2 syllables: va-let. The stress falls on "let". In IPA it is /væˈleɪ/.

What is another word for valet?

Close synonyms include valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man. 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 valet a common word?

valet 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.

What rhymes with valet?

21 words rhyme with valet. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.