contrafagotto

1. 1.

   the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family

   Synonymscontrabassoondouble bassoon

   Broaderbassoon

Other forms of contrafagotto

plural

contrafagottoes·

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 contrafagotto

What does contrafagotto mean?

contrafagotto means "the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family".

How many syllables are in contrafagotto?

contrafagotto has 5 syllables: con-tra-fa-got-to. The stress falls on "fa".

What is another word for contrafagotto?

Close synonyms include contrabassoon, double bassoon. 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 contrafagotto a common word?

contrafagotto 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.