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Definition: Bassoon |
BassoonNoun1. A double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bassoon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Crosswords: Bassoon |
| English words defined with "bassoon": bassoonist ♦ Cervelat, contrabassoon, Contrafagetto, contrafagotto ♦ double bassoon, Dulcino ♦ Fagotto ♦ Rackett ♦ tenoroon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bassoon" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (bassoon). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The range of the bassoon begins at Bb0 (the first one below the bass staff) and extends upward about three and a half octaves; higher notes are possible but difficult to produce and very rarely called for. Bassoon music is written in untransposed bass clef, while tenor clef is frequently used for the higher ranges.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bassoon."
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| Play | Caption |
 | A single bassoon note played in the middle register. |
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| "Bassoon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.82% of the time. "Bassoon" is used about 85 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) | 98.82% | 84 | 36,109 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 85 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bassoon": double bassoon ♦ reed of a bassoon. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "bassoon": bass-bassoon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
bassoon | 231 |
bassoon fingering chart | 20 |
bassoon reed | 18 |
bassoon picture | 14 |
bassoon history | 13 |
bassoon for sale | 12 |
bassoon music | 11 |
fox bassoon | 10 |
bassoon wouter | 10 |
bassoon fingering | 8 |
bassoon laval | 7 |
used bassoon | 6 |
bassoon schreiber | 6 |
bassoon cousin | 6 |
bassoon information | 5 |
bassoon sheet music | 5 |
bassoon sound | 5 |
bassoon repair | 4 |
bassoon contra | 4 |
bassoon linton | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bassoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fagot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фагот. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 巴松管 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | fagot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fagot (faggot, fagot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fagot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قره نی بم . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | fagotti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | basson. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fagott. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαρύαυλοσ (hautboy), φαγκότο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פ'וט, בסון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fagott. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fagotto (bundle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | バイヤー法 (all-terrain vehicle, baccalaureat, bacteria, bacteriophage, Bagdad, baggy look, bagpipe, baguette, basilisk, bass, bath, baumkuchen, Bayer process, bazaar, bilingual, bind, binder, binding, bounce, bound, bow side, bucket, budget, bug, bug fix, bug list, bug report, bugbear, buggy, bus, by-line, holidays, honey wagon, pail, sand buggy, surf clam, vacation, vacuum, vacuum car, vacuum cleaner, vagabond, vagina), ファイル分離キャラクタ (facade, facility, FACOM, facsimile, fact, faction, factor, factoring, factory, factory automation, factory team, fagot-stitch, fagotting stitch, fascism, fascist, fax, Feynman, file separator, finder, fine, fine ceramics, fine chemical, fine food, fine play, foul, foul line, foul tip, foundation, fuzzy, fuzzy computer, fuzzy logic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | バスーン , ファゴット . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bassoon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assoonbay fagote. (various references) fagot. (various references) фагот (basoon). (various references) fagot (fagot). (various references) fagot (faggot, fagot). (various references) fagott. (various references) fagot. (various references) фагот. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bassoon": bassoonist, bassoonists, bassoons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bassoon": contrabassoon. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bassoon": contrabassoons. (additional references) | |
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"Bassoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asson, Balson, bansoon, basoon, bassiana, Bassiouni, Bassirou, bassom, basson, bassone, besoin, besson, besun, Biassono, Blasson, Boasson, Boisseson, Busson, Hassoun, Lassoon, yassou. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bassoon" (pronounced busuw"n) |
| 3 | -s uw" n | contrabassoon, monsoon, soon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-n-o-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: bosons. | |
-2 letters: aboon, basso, boons, boson, snobs. | |
-3 letters: abos, bans, bass, boas, boon, boos, boss, nabs, naos, nobs, ossa, sabs, sans, snob, sobs, sons, soon. | |
-4 letters: abo, abs, ass, ban, bas, boa, boo, bos, nab, nob, noo, nos, ons, sab, sob, son, sos. | |
-5 letters: ab, an, as, ba, bo, na, no, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-n-o-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: bassoons. | |
+3 letters: bassoonist, snowboards, stoneboats. | |
+4 letters: absolutions, absorptions, balloonists, bassoonists, bloodstains, brontosaurs, crossbowman, obsessional, soundboards, tablespoons. | |
+5 letters: abortionists, anaerobioses, anaerobiosis, bronchospasm, brontosaurus, geobotanists, nonbotanists, obfuscations, obscurations, observations, odontoblasts, prosobranchs, snowboarders, subornations, subrogations, tobacconists, tobogganists. | |
| 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)42 61 73 73 6F 6F 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- ... ... --- --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101111 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a s s o o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0073 0073 006F 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36678585818180 |
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