tempo

Other forms of tempo

plural

tempi

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 tempo

What does tempo mean?

tempo means "(music) the speed at which a composition is to be played". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tempo?

tempo has 2 syllables: tem-po. The stress falls on "tem". In IPA it is /ˈtɛmˌpoʊ/.

What is another word for tempo?

Close synonyms include pacing, pace. 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 tempo a common word?

tempo is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 tempo?

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