How do you pronounce sonnet?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɒnɪt/.

sonnet

/ˈsɒnɪt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English

Syllables: son-net
IPA: /ˈsɒnɪt/

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Meaning

noun

A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

verb

To compose sonnets.

Intransitive verb

verb

To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"strains that come almost to sonneting"

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

Origin

Source language: Middle French

Word Breakdown

Root: sonnet, sonetto, sonet, sonus

Usage

Inflected Forms

sonnets (plural) sonnets (present, singular) sonneting (participle, present) sonnetting (participle, present) sonneted (participle, past) sonneted (past) sonnetted (participle, past) sonnetted (past)

Derived Forms

sonnetary sonneteer sonneter sonnetic sonnetish sonnetist sonnetize sonnetlike sonnetry sonnettomaniac sonnetwise

Phrases

crown of sonnets Elizabethan sonnet Petrarchan sonnet Shakespearean sonnet Spenserian sonnet caudate sonnet curtal sonnet English sonnet

Frequently Paired Words

poem caudate sonnet curtal sonnet English sonnet Italian sonnet Scottish sonnet quatorzain

Rhymes With

bonnett connett monnett bonnet