pizzicato

Other forms of pizzicato

plural

pizzicatoes·

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 pizzicato

What does pizzicato mean?

pizzicato means "a note or passage that is played pizzicato". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pizzicato?

pizzicato has 4 syllables and divides as piz-zi-ca-to 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.

Is pizzicato a common word?

pizzicato 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.