sestet
/sɛsˈtɛt/noun
sestet is spelled S-E-S-T-E-T: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sestet means “A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sestet is sestets.
How many letters and syllables are in sestet?
| Letters | 6: S-E-S-T-E-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th 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; 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 sestet?
Sestet appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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 sestet?
- /sɛsˈtɛt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sestet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sestet?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sestet.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tsetse.
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 sestet
- sestets plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sestet mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
- 2
The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sestet come from?
From Italian sestetto, from sesto (“sixth”), Latin sextus, from sex (“six”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).