forte-piano

Questions about forte-piano

What does forte-piano mean?

forte-piano means "a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds".

How many syllables are in forte-piano?

forte-piano has 5 syllables: for-te--pi-a-no. The stress falls on "pi".

What is another word for forte-piano?

Close synonyms include piano, pianoforte. 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 forte-piano a common word?

forte-piano 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.