bagatelle

Other forms of bagatelle

plural

bagatelles·

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 bagatelle

What does bagatelle mean?

bagatelle means "a light piece of music for piano". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bagatelle?

bagatelle has 4 syllables: ba-ga-te-lle. The stress falls on "ga".

What is another word for bagatelle?

Close synonyms include fluff, frippery, frivolity, bar billiards. 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 bagatelle a common word?

bagatelle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.