tercet
/ˈtɜː(ɹ)sɪt/noun
tercet is a noun meaning “a three-line stanza in a poem” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-R-C-E-T, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tercet is tercets.
What does tercet mean?
noun
- 1
a three-line stanza in a poem
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tercet?
- /ˈtɜː(ɹ)sɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tercet
- tercets plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tercet?
Tercet appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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).
Tercet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense three-line stanza in a poem:
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.