allegro

1. 1.

   in a quick and lively tempo

   “play this section allegro”

   music

Other forms of allegro

plural

allegroes·

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 allegro

What does allegro mean?

allegro means "a brisk and lively tempo". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in allegro?

allegro has 3 syllables: al-leg-ro. The stress falls on "leg". In IPA it is /əˈlɛˌɡɹoʊ/.

Is allegro a common word?

allegro is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 allegro?

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