treble

1. 1.

   sing treble

   Broadersing
2. 2.

   increase threefold

   “Triple your income!”

   Synonymstriple

   Broadermultiply

1. 1.

   the pitch range of the highest female voice

   Synonymssoprano

   Broaderpitch

Other forms of treble

plural

trebles·

past tense

trebled·

present participle

trebling·

comparative

trebler·

superlative

treblest·

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 treble

What does treble mean?

treble means "having or denoting a high range". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in treble?

treble has 2 syllables: tre-ble. The stress falls on "tre". In IPA it is /ˈtɹɛbəl/.

What is another word for treble?

Close synonyms include soprano, threefold, three-fold, triple, ternary. 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 treble a common word?

treble is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.