fado

1. 1.

   a sad Portuguese folksong

   Broaderfolk song

Other forms of fado

plural

fadoes·

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 fado

What does fado mean?

fado means "a sad Portuguese folksong".

How many syllables are in fado?

fado has 2 syllables: fa-do. The stress falls on "fa".

Is fado a common word?

fado is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.