spinneret
/ˈspɪnəɹɛt/noun
spinneret is a noun meaning “The organ a spider uses to spin its web” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-P-I-N-N-E-R-E-T, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of spinneret is spinnerets.
What does spinneret mean?
noun
- 1
The organ a spider uses to spin its web.
- 2
A multipored device through which a plastic polymer melt is extruded into fibers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce spinneret?
- /ˈspɪnəɹɛt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-spinneret.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of spinneret
- spinnerets plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is spinneret?
Spinneret appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).
Spinneret in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense spider organ for web spinning:
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 spinneret come from?
From spinner + -et.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).