Definitions for octets

octets oc·tet

Spelling: [ok-tet]
IPA: /ɒkˈtɛt/

Octets is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in octets (ceostt).

Definitions for octets

noun

  1. a company of eight singers or musicians.
  2. a musical composition for eight voices or instruments.
  3. Prosody. octave (def 4).
  4. any group of eight.

Origin of octets

1860-65; oct- + -et, as in duet

Examples for octets

Miss Edith Williams, the member of the octet who fainted on the stage, swooned again soon after she took the witness stand.

Felix had not completed his seventeenth year when the octet was written.

Moreover, his earlier chamber compositions were in three movements, the minuet having been added for the first time in the octet.

octet for wind instruments, in E flat major; composed in Bonn before 1792.

The central sphere is also figured; the cigar follows its usual course, and its companions unite into a sextet and an octet.

Later he wrote a new postlude, which is found among motivi for the octet and the Trio in C minor.

In recent months, the Israeli press has been rife with speculation about how the octet would view a strike on Iran.

As an additional piece, an arrangement of a movement from Schubert's octet was conceded.

Sonata for piano, violin, and violoncello (from the octet, Op. 103); pub.

The octet was finished and the first two lines of the sestet.

Word Value for octets
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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