songket
/ˈsɒŋkɛt/noun
songket is a noun meaning “A type of cloth made of silk or cotton interwoven with metallic threads which form intricate patterns and motifs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-N-G-K-E-T, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of songket is songkets.
What does songket mean?
noun
- 1
A type of cloth made of silk or cotton interwoven with metallic threads which form intricate patterns and motifs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce songket?
- /ˈsɒŋkɛt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of songket
- songkets plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is songket?
Songket appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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).
Where does songket come from?
From Malay songket, from Musi songket.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).