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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
fa is a noun meaning "the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization". It carries one recorded sense.
the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fa come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.