countertenor

Other forms of countertenor

plural

countertenors·

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 countertenor

What does countertenor mean?

countertenor means "a male singer with a voice above that of a tenor". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in countertenor?

countertenor has 4 syllables: coun-ter-ten-or. The stress falls on "coun". In IPA it is /ˈkaʊntɚˌtɛnɚ/.

What is another word for countertenor?

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 countertenor a common word?

countertenor 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 countertenor?

2 words rhyme with countertenor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.