common chord

1. 1.

   a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones

   Synonymstriad

   Broaderchord

Questions about common chord

What does common chord mean?

common chord means "a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones".

What is another word for common chord?

Close synonyms include triad. 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 common chord a common word?

common chord 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.