poet
/ˈpəʊ.ɪt/noun
poet is spelled P-O-E-T: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, poet means “A person who writes poems” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of poet is poets.
How many letters and syllables are in poet?
| Letters | 4: P-O-E-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,025th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is poet?
Poet appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce poet?
- UK /ˈpəʊ.ɪt/
- UK /ˈpəʊ.ət/
- UK /ˈpɔː.ɪt/
Poet has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-poet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with poet?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as poet (/əʊɪt/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tope, pote.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of poet
- poets plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does poet mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who writes poems.
- 2
A person with a creative or romantic imagination.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Poet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who writes poems:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | poète, poétesse |
| German | Dichter, Dichterin, Poet, Poetin |
| Portuguese | poeta, poetisa |
| Spanish | poeta, poetisa, lirófono |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does poet come from?
From Middle English poete, from Old French poete, from Latin poēta (“poet, author”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “creator, maker, author, poet”), from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make, compose”). Displaced native Old English sċop and lēoþwyrhta (literally, "leedwright" or "poem-writer"). Doublet of piyyut.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).