orchestration

Other forms of orchestration

plural

orchestrations·

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 orchestration

What does orchestration mean?

orchestration means "an arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in orchestration?

orchestration has 4 syllables: or-che-stra-tion. The stress falls on "stra". In IPA it is /ˌɔɹkəˈstɹeɪʃən/.

What is another word for orchestration?

Close synonyms include instrumentation. 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 orchestration a common word?

orchestration 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.

What rhymes with orchestration?

10 words rhyme with orchestration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.