coloratura

Other forms of coloratura

plural

coloraturas·

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 coloratura

What does coloratura mean?

coloratura means "a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coloratura?

coloratura has 5 syllables: co-lo-ra-tur-a. The stress falls on "tur". In IPA it is /kəlɚəˈtʊɹə/.

What is another word for coloratura?

Close synonyms include coloratura soprano. 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 coloratura a common word?

coloratura 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.

What rhymes with coloratura?

1 word rhymes with coloratura. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.