libretto

1. 1.

   the words of an opera or musical play

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Other forms of libretto

plural

libretti

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 libretto

What does libretto mean?

libretto means "the words of an opera or musical play".

How many syllables are in libretto?

libretto has 3 syllables: li-bret-to. The stress falls on "bret". In IPA it is /ləˈbɹɛtoʊ/.

Is libretto a common word?

libretto 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.