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Definitions: Allegretto |
AllegrettoAdjective1. (of tempo) faster than allegro. Adverb1. (music) in a moderately quick tempo; "play this more allegretto". Noun1. A quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Allegretto \Al`le*gret"to\, adjective. [Italian expression, diminutive of allegro.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Allegretto |
| Non-English Usage: "Allegretto" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (allegretto), Swedish (allegretto), Turkish (allegretto). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Allegretto (1936) Jimmy Allegretto (1986) | |
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| "Allegretto" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allegretto" is used about 14 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% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
allegretto | 12 |
allegretto bond | 3 |
allegretto palladio | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "allegretto"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | алегрето. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | allegretto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アレカ椰子 (alexandrite, allegory, allegro, allergen, allergy, alloc, allocate, allocation, aloe, aloha, aloha shirt, anchor, Anchorage, anchorman, ankh, anklet, areca palm, arrange, arrangement, arranger, arrow, hour, underground, underground money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アレグレット . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | allegrettoay аллегретто. (various references) alegretto. (various references) allegretto. (various references) allegretto. (various references) алегрето. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "allegretto": allegrettos. (additional references) | |
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"Allegretto" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alegretto, allegrotto. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "allegretto" (pronounced 'Al`le*gret"to'): Agitato, Anito, Araguato, Arnatto, Assiento, Avigato, Ayuntamiento, Bassetto, Basto, Braziletto, Busto, Canoncito, Canto, Carapato, Castrato, Cavetto, Cento, Cinquecento, Concerto, Concetto, Contrafagetto, Cornuto, Corvetto, Couranto, Devoto, Divertimento, Duetto, Esparto, Esperanto, Ex-voto, Facto, Fagotto, Falsetto, Ferretto, Flauto, Fugato, Giusto, graffito, Gretto, grotto, gusto, Hornito, impasto, inamorato, Infinito, junto, Lagarto, larghetto, legato, lento. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-l-o-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: allottee, allotter, tolerate, tollgate. | |
-3 letters: aerogel, alleger, allegro, garotte, gloater, glottal, legator, reallot, tollage. | |
-4 letters: allege, areole, eaglet, elater, ergate, galere, gallet, galore, gaoler, garote, gelate, gelato, getter, goatee, latter, legate, legato, letter, loreal, oleate, orgeat, rattle, regale, reglet, relate, retell, rotate, taller, target, telega, teller, tergal, togate, toller. | |
-5 letters: aglee, aglet, agree, alert. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-l-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: allegrettos. | |
+4 letters: electroplating. | |
+5 letters: intercollegiate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 65 67 72 65 74 74 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. . --. .-. . - - --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100111 01110010 01100101 01110100 01110100 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l e g r e t t o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 0065 0067 0072 0065 0074 0074 006F |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35787871738471868681 |
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