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Allegretto

Definitions: Allegretto

Allegretto

Adjective

1. (of tempo) faster than allegro.

Adverb

1. (music) in a moderately quick tempo; "play this more allegretto".

Noun

1. 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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Modern Usage: Allegretto

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Allegretto (1936)

Jimmy Allegretto (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Allegretto

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Allegretto

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1493,893

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Allegretto

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  allegretto

12

  allegretto bond

3

  allegretto palladio

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Allegretto

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

   

Russian 

  

аллегретто. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alegretto. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

allegretto. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

allegretto. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

алегрето. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Allegretto

Derivations

Words beginning with "allegretto": allegrettos. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Allegretto" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alegretto, allegrotto. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Allegretto"

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)

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Anagrams: Allegretto

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Allegretto


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6C 65 67 72 65 74 74 6F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100111 01110010 01100101 01110100 01110100 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#103 &#114 &#101 &#116 &#116 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006C 0065 0067 0072 0065 0074 0074 006F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35787871738471868681

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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