cantillate

Questions about cantillate

What does cantillate mean?

cantillate means "recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm".

How many syllables are in cantillate?

cantillate has 3 syllables: can-til-late. The stress falls on "can".

What is another word for cantillate?

Close synonyms include chant, intone, intonate. 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 cantillate a common word?

cantillate 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.