pianoforte

Other forms of pianoforte

plural

pianofortes·

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 pianoforte

What does pianoforte mean?

pianoforte means "a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds".

How many syllables are in pianoforte?

pianoforte has 4 syllables and divides as pi-a-no-forte under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pianoforte?

Close synonyms include piano, forte-piano. 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 pianoforte a common word?

pianoforte 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.