solfeggio

Other forms of solfeggio

plural

solfeggi

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 solfeggio

What does solfeggio mean?

solfeggio means "singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in solfeggio?

solfeggio has 4 syllables: sol-feg-gi-o. The stress falls on "feg".

What is another word for solfeggio?

Close synonyms include solmization, solfege, solfege. 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 solfeggio a common word?

solfeggio 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.