Crossword-Solution: SESTET 6 letters, 158 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Sestet	n.	A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor.
Sestet	n.	The last six lines of a sonnet.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SESTET	anagram	ESTTES, SETTES, TEESTS, TESTES, TSETSE

We have 158 clues for the answer “SESTET”

Clue	Answers
"Resolution" section of a sonnet	1 answer
A group of six tsetse flies (6)	1 answer
A group of six.	1 answer
Any stanza in Burns's "To a Mouse"	1 answer
Bard's work	1 answer
Certain poetic output	1 answer
Certain set of lines from Petrarch	1 answer
Certain stanza	1 answer
Duo, trebled	1 answer
End of a Petrarchan sonnet	1 answer
End of a sonnet, often	1 answer
End of an Italian sonnet	1 answer
End of some sonnets	1 answer
Ending section of an Italian sonnet	1 answer
Final lines of a sonnet	1 answer
Group of geese a-laying	1 answer
Group of six singers	1 answer
Group of two trios	1 answer
Guitar strings, e.g.	1 answer
Harmonizing six	1 answer
Insect's legs, e.g.	1 answer
It follows the octave in an Italian sonnet	1 answer
Italian sonnet closing	1 answer
Italian sonnet ending	1 answer
Italian sonnet feature	1 answer
Italian sonnet finale	1 answer
Italian sonnet finish	1 answer
Italian sonnet's conclusion	1 answer
Italian sonnet's end	1 answer
Italian sonnet's ending	1 answer
Italian sonnet's ending lines	1 answer
Last lines of Italian sonnet.	1 answer
Last lines of a sonnet	1 answer
Last part of a sonnet	1 answer
Last six lines of Italian sonnet.	1 answer
Last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet	1 answer
Last six lines of a sonnet	1 answer
Last six lines of a sonnet, often	1 answer
Last six lines of an Italian sonnet	1 answer
Last six lines of poetry	1 answer
Latter part of an Italian sonnet	1 answer
Miltonic poem ender	1 answer
New England's states, e.g.	1 answer
New England's states, for example	1 answer
Octave follower	1 answer
Octave follower in a Petrarchan sonnet	1 answer
Octave follower, to a sonneteer	1 answer
Octave's counterpart in a sonnet	1 answer
Octave's follower in a Petrarchan sonnet	1 answer
Octave's follower, in some poetry	1 answer

✏️ Suggest another clue Know another question for crossword solution "SESTET"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!

Kind of apple

?

E

?

A

?

T

?

E

?

R

Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RAEET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

Play Crossword

12 +1

New Suggestion for "SESTET"

Related word tools

Unscramble SESTET 6-letter words that start with S 6-letter words that end in T 6-letter words containing ES 6-letter words containing ET 6-letter words with S and E

Sentences with SESTET (5)

Wyatt, it should be observed, generally departs from the Petrarchan rime-scheme, on the whole unfortunately, by substituting a third quatrain for the first four lines of the sestet.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher 2005

There is a main pause in passing from the octave to the sestet, and frequently there are minor pauses in passing from the first quatrain to the second, and from the first tercet to the last.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 2005

While individual poets have constantly experimented with different rhyme-schemes, particularly in the sestet, the only really notable invention of a new sonnet form was made by the Elizabethans.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 2005

For the distinction between octave and sestet has disappeared, there is a threefold division of the first twelve lines, and the final couplet gives an epigrammatic summary or "point" which Petrarch took pains to avoid.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 2005

The possible combinations are infinite, but the law of logical relation between octave and sestet, premise and conclusion, is immutable.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 2005

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 236 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).