What does whole step mean?

whole step means "a musical interval of two semitones".

What is another word for whole step?

Close synonyms include tone, whole tone, step. 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 whole step a common word?

whole step 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.

Whole step — meaning and 3 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a musical interval of two semitones
Synonymstone whole tone step
Broaderinterval

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What does whole step mean?: whole step means "a musical interval of two semitones".
What is another word for whole step?: Close synonyms include tone, whole tone, step. 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 whole step a common word?

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