contralto

Other forms of contralto

plural

contralti

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 contralto

What does contralto mean?

contralto means "a woman singer having a contralto voice". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in contralto?

contralto has 3 syllables: con-tral-to. The stress falls on "con".

What is another word for contralto?

Close synonyms include alto, alto. 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 contralto a common word?

contralto 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.