fresco

Other forms of fresco

plural

frescoes

past tense

frescoed·

present participle

frescoing·

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 fresco

What does fresco mean?

fresco means "a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fresco?

fresco has 2 syllables: fres-co. The stress falls on "fres". In IPA it is /ˈfɹɛskoʊ/.

Is fresco a common word?

fresco 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.