Word.ws English Dictionary

stylet

stylet noun: an engraving tool, a stylus.

Noun

stylet (plural stylets)

  1. An engraving tool, a stylus.
  2. A style of a plant's flower.
  3. A slender medical probe or device.
    Synonyms:
    style
  4. A poniard or stiletto.
  5. A stiff, slender organ of an animal.
    • Even octopuses without stylets almost certainly retain the molecular machinery necessary to build them.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 120
    Synonyms:
    style

stylet meaning in Kannada

stylet in Kannada

ಕೊರೆಕಂಬಿ

Synonyms of stylet

Forms of stylet

pluralstylets

Origin of stylet

From French stylet (“stiletto”), from Middle French stilet (“stiletto”), from Old Italian stiletto. Doublet of stiletto. By surface analysis, style + -et.

Words formed from stylet

Words that rhyme with stylet

Questions about stylet

What does stylet mean?
Stylet means an engraving tool, a stylus.
What is stylet in Kannada?
Stylet in Kannada is ಕೊರೆಕಂಬಿ. See Stylet meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is stylet?
Stylet is a noun.
What is the plural of stylet?
The plural of stylet is stylets.

Words near stylet in the dictionary

  1. styles up
  2. stylesheet
  3. stylesheets
  4. styless
  5. stylest
  6. stylet
  7. styleted
  8. styleth
  9. styletiform
  10. stylets
  11. styletted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stylet (page history and authors); stylet (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-stylet.wav.

Cite this entry: “stylet.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stylet. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.