Falsetto

Definitions: Falsetto

Falsetto

Adjective

1. Artificially high; above the normal voice range; "a falsetto voice".

Noun

1. A male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register.

Date "falsetto" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Etymology: Falsetto \Fal*set"to\, noun; plural Falsettos. [Italian falsetto, diminutive from Latin falsus. See False.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Falsetto

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Aphony	Noun: aphony, aphonia; dumbness; Adjective: obmutescence; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony; cacoepy; silence; (taciturnity); raucity; harsh voice; , unmusical voice; ; falsetto, "childish treble mute"; dummy.
Stammering	Noun: inarticulateness; stammering; Verb: hesitation; Verb: impediment in one's speech; titubancy, traulism; whisper; (faint sound); lisp, drawl, tardiloquence; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto; (want of voice); broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Falsetto

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Falsetto, also refered to as the Head Voice, is a technique in singing using a voice pitched higher than the singer's natural range.

Falsetto can also mean an artificially raised speaking pitch. This usually occurs in males post puberty for psychosocial reasons.

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External link

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Crosswords: Falsetto

English words defined with "falsetto": Falsettos ♦ head voice ♦ yodel, yodeling, Yodle. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Falsetto" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Italian (falsetto).

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Commercial Usage: Falsetto

Domain	Title
Music	Falsetto Teeth (reference) Hawai`i's Falsetto Returns (reference) Legends of Falsetto (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Usage Frequency: Falsetto

"Falsetto" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Falsetto" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	38	55,818

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Falsetto

Expression using "falsetto": falsetto voice. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Falsetto

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
falsetto	29
falsetto singing	3
march of the falsetto	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Falsetto

Language		Translations for "falsetto"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zë fals, këngëtar me zë fals. (various references)

Arabic		‏صوت عالي الطبقة بصورة مصطنعة. (various references)

Bulgarian		фалцет. (various references)

Finnish		falsetti. (various references)

French		fausset. (various references)

German		fistelstimme (piping voice, squeaky voice), falsett. (various references)

Greek		φαλσέτο, ψευδέσ. (various references)

Hebrew		פלסט, סלפית. (various references)

Hungarian		fejhang. (various references)

Italian		falsetto, voce di falsetto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		裏声 , 仮声 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うら�"え, かせい (assistance, backing, caustic, change, clearing of the river water, despotism, false, force of flames, great poet, growth, honour of the family, household economy, Mars, metamorphosis, reinforcements, section system, transformation, tyranny). (various references)

Manx		cooaghagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		alsettofay.(various references)

Portuguese		falsidade (double dealing, eyewash, falsehood, falter, flambeau, insinuate, lie, lying, perfidy, prevarication, sham, tale, untruth). (various references)

Russian		фальцет (countertenor). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		falseto. (various references)

Spanish		falsete (spile, wooden peg). (various references)

Swedish		falsett (head voice). (various references)

Turkish		falseto, tiz sesli erkek sanatçı, tiz erkek sesi, öfkeyle bağırma. (various references)

Ukranian		фальцетом, фальцет. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Falsetto

Derivations
	Words beginning with "falsetto": falsettos. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Falsetto" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faldetta, Falette, Faletto, falseta, falsetlo, falseto, falsetter, farsetti. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Falsetto"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "falsetto" (pronounced fôlse"tō')
3	-e" t ō'	stretto.
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Anagrams: Falsetto

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-o-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: folates.
	-2 letters: festal, floats, flotas, foetal, folate, latest, lattes, lottes, oftest, osteal, solate, totals.
	-3 letters: alefs, aloes, aloft, altos, false, fates, fatso, feast, feats, felts, fetal, fetas, flats, fleas, float, floes, flota, foals, latte, leafs, least, lefts, loafs, lofts, lotas, lotte, setal, slate, softa, stale, state, steal, stela, stoae, stoat, stole, taels, tales, taste, tates, teals, teats, telos, tesla, testa, toast, toeas, tofts, tolas, toles, total, totes.
	-4 letters: alef, ales, aloe, also, alto, alts, ates, east, eats, efts, etas, fast, fate, fats, feal, feat, felt, feta, fets, flat, flea, floe, foal, foes, lase, last, late, lats, leaf, leas, left, lest, lets, loaf, loft, lose, lost, lota, lots, oafs, oast, oats, olea, oles, safe, sale, salt, sate, seal, seat, self, seta, sett, slat, sloe, slot, sofa, soft, sola, sole, stat, stet, stoa, tael, tale, taos, tate, tats, teal, teas, teat, tela, tels, test, tets, toea, toes, toft, tola, tole, tost, tote, tots.
	-5 letters: aft, ale, als, alt, ate, att, eat, efs, eft, elf, els, eta, fas, fat, fet, foe, las, lat, lea, let, lot, oaf, oat, oes, oft, ole, ose, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, sol, sot, tae, tao, tas, tat, tea, tel, tet, toe, tot.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-o-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: falsettos, floatiest.
	+3 letters: thiosulfate.
	+4 letters: battlefronts, felicitators, footlamberts, frontalities, thiosulfates.
	+5 letters: felicitations, flutterboards, forestallment, olfactometers, softheartedly.
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