mezzo

Other forms of mezzo

plural

mezzoes·

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 mezzo

What does mezzo mean?

mezzo means "a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mezzo?

mezzo has 2 syllables: mez-zo. The stress falls on "mez". In IPA it is /ˈmɛzoʊ/.

What is another word for mezzo?

Close synonyms include mezzo-soprano, mezzo-soprano. 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 mezzo a common word?

mezzo 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.