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quintuplet

/kwɪnˈtʌplət/noun

quintuplet is spelled Q-U-I-N-T-U-P-L-E-T: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, quintuplet means “A group of five, particularly (music) a tuplet of five notes to be played in the time for four” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of quintuplet is quintuplets.

How many letters and syllables are in quintuplet?

Letters10: Q-U-I-N-T-U-P-L-E-T
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 58 million words; the 237,177th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 quintuplet?

Quintuplet appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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 quintuplet?

  • UK /kwɪnˈtʌplət/
  • UK /kwɪnˈtjuːplət/
  • US /kwɪnˈtʌplət/

Quintuplet has 3 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)-Persent101-quintuplet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with quintuplet?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as quintuplet from its last stressed vowel (/ʌplət/):

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 quintuplet

  • quintuplets plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does quintuplet mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A group of five, particularly (music) a tuplet of five notes to be played in the time for four.

  2. 2

    One of a group of five, particularly babies born from the same mother during the same birth.

  3. 3

    A cycle adapted for five riders, all of whom can assist in the propulsion.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Quintuplet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchquintuplé (one of a group of five babies born from the…), quintolet ((music) group of five notes played in place of…)
GermanFünfling (one of a group of five babies born from the…)
Portuguesequíntuplo, quíntupla (one of a group of five babies born from the…)
Spanishquintillizo (one of a group of five babies born from the…)

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 quintuplet come from?

From quintuple + -et, from Middle French quintuple.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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