accidental

1. 1.

   a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature

   Broadermusical notation

Other forms of accidental

plural

accidentals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about accidental

What does accidental mean?

accidental means "happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accidental?

accidental has 4 syllables: ac-ci-den-tal. The stress falls on "den". In IPA it is /ˌæksəˈdɛntəl/.

What is another word for accidental?

Close synonyms include inadvertent, incidental, nonessential. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accidental a common word?

accidental is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with accidental?

5 words rhyme with accidental. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.