Definitions for sextet

sextet sex·tet

Spelling: [seks-tet]
IPA: /sɛksˈtɛt/

Sextet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in sextet (eesttx).

Definitions for sextet

noun

  1. any group or set of six.
  2. Also, sestet. Music. a company of six singers or players. a musical composition for six voices or instruments.

Origin of sextet

1835-45; half-Latinized variant of sestet; see sex-

Examples for sextet

But this is not the way passion speaks, and here again the sextet condemns Herbert in the plainest terms.

As a sextet, there's no use denying that we are rather lovely to look at.

The greatest ensemble number in Italian opera, the sextet, has begun.

I hope you will be pleased to hear I have composed a sextet for strings.

In all, he and his sextet had captured nineteen prisoners and twenty horses.

They are an introduction, a chorus, and a septet, not a sextet as he said.

The preliminary encounter was a mortifying experience for the sextet of overconfident youth.

sextet for two clarionets, two flutes, and two bassoons; performed 1804-5.

The sextet is well divided from the Octave, the climax is clearly underlined.

Is it wise to accept the offer of the Opera Direction, for the sextet seems to point to the fact that I am going down-hill?

Word Value for sextet
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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