pentatonic scale

1. 1.

   a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted

   Synonymspentatone

   Broadergapped scale

Questions about pentatonic scale

What does pentatonic scale mean?

pentatonic scale means "a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted".

What is another word for pentatonic scale?

Close synonyms include pentatone. 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 pentatonic scale a common word?

pentatonic scale 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.