diskette

noun

dis·​kette ˌdi-ˈsket 

: floppy disk

Examples of diskette in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Click the Save or Save As icon (the diskette symbol) to store your changes. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025

But the small diskettes couldn’t keep up with the demands of bloated software. — Emily Price, PCMAG, 4 July 2024

Everything is bigger, faster, and more flexible, but there's a certain charm to the ways of diskettes and cassettes that is hard to recapture. — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 8 May 2024

Cartridges, diskettes, and CD-ROMs all contained full, unchanging versions of games that were forever compatible with the similarly stable hardware they were designed to be played on. — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2019

Word History

Etymology

disk entry 1 + -ette

First Known Use

1973, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for diskette

• abet
• asset
• baguette
• banquette
• barbette
• beget
• beset
• binet
• briquette
• brunet
• brunette
• burette