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Definition: SOL-FA |
SOL-FAIntransitive verb1. To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order. Noun1. The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n. |
Date "SOL-FA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Note: Sol-fa \Sol`-fa"\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Sol-faed;personal pronoun & verb noun. Sol-faing.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sol-fa (See Do, Re , etc.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SOL-FA |
| English words defined with "SOL-FA": Sol-faed, Sol-faing, Solfeggiare ♦ Tonic sol-fa. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SOL-FA": solmization. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Song Titles | Eleanor Rigby (performing artist: Tonic Sol-Fa) Man of Constant Sorrow (performing artist: Tonic Sol-Fa) Na, Na, Na (performing artist: Tonic Sol-Fa) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "SOL-FA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SOL-FA" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SOL-FA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | solfexhio, këndoj solfexhio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | солфеж (solmization), пея солфежи. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szolmizálás, szolmizál. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | solfeggio (solfeggio, tonic sol fa). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | " 노이" 야 포. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sol-fah. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ol-fasay solfegia (solmizate). (various references) сольфеджио (solfeggio), петь сольфеджио. (various references) solfeđo, pevati solfeđo. (various references) solfeo (singing of scales, voice practice), solfa (musical notation). (various references) salmisation. (various references) โน้ต"นตรี. (various references) notaya bakarak okumak, notaya bakarak okuma, notaları okumak, nota sistemi, nota işaretleri (sol-fa syllables), gam notalarını sesle vermek, gam (gamut, grief, scale, sorrow, woe). (various references) сольфеджіо. (various references) sol-ffaeo, sol-ffa (solfege). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: foals, loafs. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-l-o-s" | |
-1 letter: also, foal, loaf, oafs, sofa, sola. | |
-2 letters: als, fas, las, oaf, sal, sol. | |
-3 letters: al, as, fa, la, lo, of, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-l-o-s" | |
+1 letter: floats, floras, flotas, loofas, offals, safrol. | |
+2 letters: falcons, fallows, flacons, flagons, flavors, florals, flotsam, folates, formals, layoffs, loafers, loofahs, safrole, safrols, seafowl. | |
+3 letters: airflows, airfoils, alforjas, alfresco, batfowls, beefalos, bifocals, blastoff, boastful, boatfuls, boffolas, buffalos, coalfish, cowflaps, fabulous, falloffs, fallouts, falsetto, famously, fanfolds, farnesol, flattops, flavones, flavours, floatels, floaters, flokatis, flotages, flotsams, flowages, flyboats, foamless, focalise, foilsman, folacins, foliages, foliates, folkways, foolscap, foresail, forestal, formulas, foulards, foveolas, foxtails, frontals, haylofts, holdfast, leadoffs, oafishly, offloads, outfalls, peafowls, plafonds, playoffs, refloats, safroles, scaffold, scofflaw, scrofula, seafloor, seafowls, snowfall, softball, wolframs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4F 4C 2D 46 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001111 01001100 00101101 01000110 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S O L - F A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004F 004C 002D 0046 0041 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)534946154035 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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